Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyers want jurors questioned about sex, drugs, violence

US Producer-Musician Sean “Diddy” Combs speaks on stage in the course of the 94th Oscars within the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, on March 27, 2022. Picture: Robyn Beck/Agence France-Presse

New York – Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs In a decide, a decide insists on letting potential jury members questioned the upcoming means of the hip -hop smoguls about their views on intercourse, medicine and violence.

The legal professionals introduced up the topic once they submitted a proposed questionnaire that have to be accomplished by individuals summoned earlier than his trial of 5 Might within the Federal Courtroom of Manhattan.

In a letter to a decide on the finish of Friday, the legal professionals stated they wish to know the willingness of potential jury members to observe movies which might be sexually express or present bodily assault. Additionally they say that they wish to know their views about folks with a number of sexual companions.

Officers of Justice In their very own letter, the proposed questionnaire of the protection criticized as too lengthy and touched topics which might be higher requested by the decide, or under no circumstances.

They stated that among the proposed 72 questions of the protection, some with sub -parts, “have been utterly irrelevant for the flexibility to serve a jury.”

Prosecutors additionally talked about the method of intercourse commerce in Ghislaine Maxwell for example of how a protracted questionnaire may be dangerous.

After Maxwell was convicted of intercourse trafficking in December 2021, a jury member admitted that he had not introduced that he was a sufferer of sexual abuse and partly blamed his supervision of “derived when he stuffed within the questionnaire” and “had donated too rapidly”, inflicting him to query abuse questions.

Decide Arun Subramanian has informed legal professionals that questionnaires might be divided to lots of of potential jury members on the finish of April, in order that the interrogation of potential jury members can begin on 5 Might, with opening statements most likely on 12 Might.

Combs, 55, has argued not responsible of accusations that he has subjected people to sexual abuse for a interval of twenty years. The founding father of the Dangerous Boy Data has been locked up with out bail since his arrest in September.

An indictment accuses combs of utilizing the “energy and status” that he used as a music mogul to intimidate girls, threaten and lure them to his job, typically underneath the pretension of a romantic relationship.

The indictment stated that he subsequently used violence, threats and coercion to deliver victims, together with three girls specified within the court docket papers, to undertake business sexual acts.

It stated that he was topic to his victims to violence, threats of violence, threats of economic and fame harm and verbal abuse.

Public Prosecutors have stated that an necessary a part of the proof in the course of the trial might be a video that can present combs that his former Protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, hit and throw her on the ground in a hall of a lodge.

Protection Attorneys argued that public prosecutors have constructed up their case on fees that attempt to demonize sexual acts between agent adults.

They informed the decide that they might not attain a consensus with public prosecutors for which potential jury members ought to be requested on questionnaires.

“The protection is of the opinion that it is crucial that we permit potential jury members to put in writing frankly concerning the unprecedented and unfavorable media to which they might have been uncovered, associated to Mr. Combs,” the legal professionals wrote.

Protection legal professionals additionally requested jury members to say to say if they’ve watched exhibits on tv entitled: “The autumn of Diddy”, “Diddy do it?” “The Downfall of Diddy” and “Diddy: the making of a nasty boy.”