Whereas it’d seem to some observers that Diddy has no manner out of his authorized points, the music mogul’s authorized staff is hellbent on victory. Their current chess strikes show they’re pulling out all stops within the squabble with the federal government.
Diddy’s Authorized Group Needs a Honest One
Together with his Might 5 intercourse crimes trial looming, Diddy’s attorneys proceed to mount a protection for the Unhealthy Boy Data founder, who has been charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Within the final two weeks, Puff’s counsel has filed a number of motions straight difficult the federal government’s case.
On Feb. 18, Diddy’s staff filed a movement requesting his prostitution cost be dismissed, citing racial bias.
“There has by no means been an analogous RICO prosecution,” the movement states. “No White individual has ever been the goal of a remotely related case. Mr. Combs has been singled out as a result of he’s a strong Black man, and he’s being prosecuted for conduct that recurrently goes unpunished.”
Diddy suffered a slight setback after one among his protection attorneys, Anthony Ricco, stop the case on Feb. 21. However with Diddy’s lead counsel Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos nonetheless being in place, it has been full steam forward.
On Sunday (Feb. 23), Diddy’s attorneys challenged the legality of search warrants executed on Diddy’s houses in Miami and Los Angeles final March.
The submitting contends the “authorities withheld exculpatory details, didn’t current a good image of the proof, and used overbroad search warrants to look his houses, iCloud accounts, telephones, and a lodge room.” The movement asks the choose to suppress all proof obtained by these searches and maintain a listening to to look into the federal government’s conduct in acquiring the warrants.
On the civil facet, it has been a lot of the identical. On Feb. 12, Diddy filed a $100 million lawsuit towards NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Peacock TV, LLC, and Ample LLC for alleged defamatory statements revealed within the new documentary Diddy: The Making of a Unhealthy Boy.
On Feb. 25, Diddy’s authorized staff went after lawyer Tony Buzbee, the lawyer who has filed over 20 civil lawsuits on behalf of Diddy’s accusers. They filed a court docket movement citing “severe skilled misconduct, unauthorized follow of regulation and violations of court docket guidelines.” It claims Buzbee was not licensed to follow regulation in some states the place the lawsuits had been filed.
“Mr. Buzbee has signed a number of filings throughout twenty-two instances with out permission to follow on this Courtroom,” the movement reads. “He failed in every occasion to reveal that he had filed with out being admitted; and he violated New York’s Guidelines of Skilled Conduct by, amongst different issues, repeatedly insisting that Mr. Combs is responsible of the felony costs pending towards him on this District.”
There is not any backdown from Puff’s authorized aces. Will it’s sufficient in the long run? The saga continues…
