Diddy
Butts Heads With Feds Over Jury Choice
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Diddy and federal prosecutors are at odds over the jury choice course of for his upcoming felony trial … and his protection group needs to forged a large web.
In response to new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Diddy’s authorized squad needs to start jury choice on Might 5 … they usually wish to decide from an enormous pool of 600 jurors.
Prosecutors, in the meantime, wish to get began with jury choice subsequent month … proposing an April 21 begin date, which Diddy’s camp is balking at as a result of they need extra time to organize his protection.
Diddy’s camp needs potential jurors to fill out written questionnaires, which might be collected and reviewed earlier than either side can discover an settlement on 12 jurors for the trial.
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The feds say they need any potential questionnaire restricted to scheduling conflicts for jurors and nothing extra. Diddy’s camp is just not indicating what precisely they wish to ask potential jurors.
What’s extra, the Dangerous Boy Information founder needs a sequestered jury choice course of to query jurors individually outdoors the presence of different jurors.
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Diddy and prosecutors are additionally butting heads on a possible begin date for the trial …. the feds desire a jury seated for opening statements on Might 5, whereas Diddy’s aspect needs to begin jury choice on Might 5 and do the opening statements as soon as they decide the jury.
A 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN exhibits Sean “Diddy” Combs violently seize, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura throughout an altercation in a lodge in California. pic.twitter.com/1u7qJgn3mC
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The requests are a part of Thursday’s explosive court docket filings … included in the identical doc the place Diddy’s camp claims CNN altered the Cassie beating footage after which destroyed the one identified authentic copy of the video.
Diddy is due again in court docket Friday, the place he is anticipated to plead not responsible to new allegations towards him within the superseding indictment.
