The lawyers of the famous rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs They filed a motion last night in court in which they accuse the United States Government of leaking to the press a video of the hip-hop mogul beating his ex-girlfriend and others that could be used as evidence against him.
As reported CNNthe lawyers have asked the judge to prohibit the use of these videos as evidence in the future trial against Sean “Diddy”.
The initiative presented in the court of Southern District of New York, who handles the case, refers to the video recorded by a security camera from a hotel in 2016 published by CNN that shows Combs dragging and kicking his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Combs’ Lawyers They accused the government of leaking that video to CNN, although according to the network, they have not provided evidence of these claims.
Combs is in the Metropolitan Detention Center from Brooklyn, New York.
The 54-year-old singer, who is being investigated for human trafficking and sexual abusewas arrested on September 16 in New York and after the first hearing, the judge determined that he should continue in prison.
His arrest occurred after having received during the last year ten claims of sexual abuse and rape by various women, complaints whose number has been growing.
In this last motion presented by the Combs Lawyers It also alleges that authorities alerted the media about searches conducted in March at his mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.
The motion states that the leaks condition “to the jury and deprive Mr. Combs of his right to a fair trial”.
The rapper’s lawyers asked the judge to impose a censure order to prohibit the government from providing information about the evidence in the case to the media.
The lawyers, according to CNN, affirm that the leaks came from agents of the Department of Homeland Securitywhose Homeland Security Investigations division conducted the search, and not the prosecutors in the case.
Combs initially He denied accusations that he had hit Ventura, which were included in a November 2023 lawsuit he filed before the video became public.
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