New York – Hip-Hop producer’s lawyers Sean “Diddy” Comuns asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to delay their sexual trafficking trial of May 5 for two months so they can better prepare a defense.
The lawyers told Judge Arun Subramanian that prosecutors have taken to deliver some potential review evidence, which makes it difficult to be ready in three weeks.
Prosecutors oppose the application, lawyers said. A prosecutor spokesman declined to comment.
Subramanian wrote in an order that responded to the request for delayed trial that addresses the problem during an audience scheduled for Friday.
Waiting for the conference, the judge wrote, both parties must proceed as if the early trial of May remained in place.
Comps, 55, has stopped without bail since its arrest in September. He declared innocent of multiple crimes that prosecutors, as occurred for a period of two decades.
In their letter, defense lawyers cited a failure by prosecutors to deliver evidence of potential judgment in a timely matter, including materials related to an replacement accusation returned by a large jury earlier this month.
For example, lawyers wrote, prosecutors have said they will not comply with a deadline on Wednesday to deliver exhibitions and a list of witnesses.
Some evidence that has not yet been delivered includes materials related to a count in the accusation that entails a minimum mandatory minimum prison sentence of 15 years if a conviction is secured, lawyers said.
As a result, they wrote: “We cannot, in good awareness, go to trial on the scheduled date.”
They added: “This is a problem that the government has created, but opposes our reasonable application.”
Prosecutors say that combs coerced and abused women For years while using his “Power and prestige” As a music star to enlist a network of associates and employees to help him while silenced the victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, fire and physical beatings.
