Sean “Diddy” Combs has tried to succeed in out to potential witnesses and affect public opinion from jail in a bid to have an effect on potential jurors for his upcoming intercourse trafficking trial, prosecutors claimed in a court docket submitting urging a decide to reject his newest bail request.
The federal government accusations have been made in a Manhattan federal court docket submitting late Friday (Nov. 15) that opposes the music mogul’s newest $50 million bail proposal. A bail listening to is scheduled for subsequent week.
Prosecutors wrote {that a} evaluation of recorded jail calls made by Combs exhibits he has requested members of the family to succeed in out to potential victims and witnesses and has urged them to create “narratives” to affect the jury pool. They are saying he additionally has inspired advertising and marketing methods to sway public opinion.
“The defendant has proven repeatedly — even whereas in custody — that he’ll flagrantly and repeatedly flout guidelines with a view to improperly affect the end result of his case. The defendant has proven, in different phrases, that he can’t be trusted to abide by guidelines or situations,” prosecutors wrote in a submission that contained redactions.
Prosecutors wrote that it might be inferred from his habits that Combs needs to blackmail victims and witnesses into silence or into offering testimony useful to his protection.
Attorneys for Combs didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Prosecutors stated Combs, 55, started breaking guidelines virtually as quickly as he was detained on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn after his September arrest.
He has pleaded not responsible to expenses that he coerced and abused girls for years with assistance from a community of associates and staff, whereas silencing victims by way of blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
Two judges have concluded he’s a hazard to the neighborhood and a danger to flee.
His legal professionals not too long ago made a 3rd request for bail after the rejection of two earlier makes an attempt, together with a $50 million bail proposal.
Within the request, they cited modified circumstances, together with new proof, which they stated made it smart to launch Combs so he can higher put together for his Might 5 trial.
However prosecutors stated protection legal professionals created their newest bail proposal utilizing some proof prosecutors turned over to them and the brand new materials was already identified to protection legal professionals after they made earlier bail functions.
Of their submission to a decide, prosecutors stated Combs’ habits in jail exhibits he should stay locked up.
For example, they stated, Combs has enlisted members of the family to plan and perform a social media marketing campaign round his birthday “with the intention of influencing the potential jury on this legal continuing.”
He inspired his youngsters to put up a video to their social media accounts displaying them gathered to rejoice his birthday, they stated.
Afterward, he monitored the analytics, together with viewers engagement, from the jail and “explicitly mentioned along with his household how to make sure that the video had his desired impact on potential jury members on this case,” they stated.
The federal government additionally alleged Combs throughout different calls made clear his intention to anonymously publish data that he thought would assist his protection in opposition to the costs.
“The defendant’s efforts to hinder the integrity of this continuing additionally contains relentless efforts to contact potential witnesses, together with victims of his abuse who might present highly effective testimony in opposition to him,” prosecutors wrote.
