Didi's The demand to have the names of witnesses against him in his upcoming criminal trial has been slammed by prosecutors in a recent filing.
According to exhibitionsa request by Diddy's legal team to reveal the names of those prosecution witnesses has been denied in a recent filing. “The Victim Gag Motion should be dismissed as an attempt under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to compel the government to prematurely disclose its witness list,” prosecutors for the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York wrote in a filing on Thursday (October 31).
The 56-page motion denounced attorneys Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos for the move, writing, “Not only would this relief be unprecedented, but the defendant should not be allowed to use a local criminal statute as a sword to silence politicians plaintiffs whether or not their statements were related to this criminal proceeding or to avoid standing case law in this circuit.” The resolution also dismissed claims by Agnifilo and Geragos that the federal government leaked to the public the 2016 hotel security footage that showed Diddy, aka Sean Combs, assaulting his then-partner Cassie Ventura.
“As the defendant is fully aware, the video was not in the government's possession at the time of CNN's publication, and the government never, at any point, received the video through the grand jury process,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams wrote , who also reported. away other defense claims that the government leaked material to the media. “And here the accused is grasping at straws. Because defendant cannot show that the information in the cited articles is grand jury material, and because he cannot show that government agents with access to grand jury material leaked the information, he cannot make the prima facie showing required to relief he asks for.”
The filing comes as the grand jury in the criminal case continues to meet and hear from witnesses, as well as review new evidence submitted by the government, including text, video and audio messages from 60 of Diddy's devices. “The grand jury is always in session. This is an ongoing investigation,” said a source close to the case CNN. The case, to be heard by US District Judge Arun Subramanian, is set to begin on May 5, 2025. Didi is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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