Diddy Prosecutors Accuse Mogul Of “Hijacking” Prison Case To Quell Civil Lawsuits

The prosecution within the Diddy case issued a scathing response to varied of the protection’s motions on Wednesday (October 30), in accordance with court docket paperwork reportedly obtained by AllHipHop. They sought to persuade a decide that Sean Combs’ requests for a gag order, an investigation into alleged leaks, and revealing alleged sufferer and witness names are misguided efforts that search to conflate his responses to his varied civil lawsuits with proof suppression and a “hijacking” of his legal case. As such, the feds urged the decide on this case to disclaim these motions. One of many feds’ first clap-backs involved allegations that they leaked the Cassie video as grand jury info to the press.

Nonetheless, federal prosecutors declare that Diddy’s group failed to indicate proof of the leak of any grand jury materials within the legal case for alleged intercourse trafficking and racketeering. They declare that the leak movement goals to “suppress extremely probative proof” such because the Cassie video. Moreover, the feds alleged that the Dangerous Boy mogul’s group is well-aware that the federal government by no means had entry to that video on the time of its launch and that they by no means acquired it by way of a grand jury course of. As for different alleged grand jury info leaks alleged by the protection, the prosecution alleges they “grasped at straws” in different accusations about supposed “legislation enforcement sources” leaking to the press.

“The defendant can not credibly declare that he’ll undergo unfair shock at trial,” Diddy’s prosecutors claimed. “Reasonably, it’s plain that the defendant’s request for a invoice of particulars containing sufferer names is merely a car to try to prematurely prohibit the Authorities’s proof at trial and use these legal proceedings to defend himself within the press towards complainants in separate civil litigation. This improper request ought to be denied in its entirety, significantly right here, the place there are severe and ongoing issues of sufferer and witness security, tampering and intimidation.” The feds consider Combs tried to “hijack the legal continuing” to cope with his civil lawsuits, and that he does not want a witness listing six months earlier than his trial begins.

As well as, they characterised Diddy’s movement as both a “blanket [gag] order” for all accusers or a “restricted order” that will reveal witnesses months earlier than trial. In each circumstances, they alleged that is an unprecedented and hostile use of native legal legislation to “gag civil claimants whether or not or not their statements [connect] to this legal continuing.” Whereas prosecutors denied any grand jury press leak, they recognized just one alleged supply – a supposed Homeland Safety officer – within the information articles cited by Puff as a “believable connection” to the investigation. They made it clear that the knowledge within the alleged supply’s dialogue was principally already public report. Despite the fact that they agreed with the protection that “extrajudicial commentary by [involved] legislation enforcement officers” is unacceptable, this supply from a search is under no circumstances part of the prosecution.