This Monday (5) The Criminal Incal Sean “Didi” Combs.
Comles S. An innocent announcement Accusations Plottingand Transfer prostitution E Sexual traffic. If he is convicted of all charges, he may face life imprisonment.
The controversial music pole has been held at the Brooklyn Metropolitan detention center (MDC) since his arrest in September 2024.
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History of ruling
The jury will be selected for trial on May 5, with the initial data scheduled on May 12. The experiment should last for several weeks.
What are the accusations?
In September 2024, Coms was arrested in New York after being accused of conspiring for blackmail, accusing sexual trafficking and accusing recruitment of prostitution.
He declared himself innocent of these accusations. In April, the prosecutors filed another alternative complaint that added an additional accusation of sex trafficking and the charge of charging additional prostitution.
He again announced himself innocent of these accusations.
Prosecutors claim that the compressor compulsion is at least three women to perform sexual acts with him and sometimes with male prostitutes, during the occasions known as “strange displays”, as women were supposed to have been forced to have sex for several days.
The authorities also claim that Combs recorded some sexual work and control of their victims and promised financial and professional opportunities, as well as through threats of violence and other damage.
In addition to his criminal case, COMBS is a target for dozens of civilian procedures for alleged victims, including those who were shortened at the time of allegations, claiming that they were subjected to drugs and sexual assault by controversial music printing.
Civil procedures are not part of the federal criminal ruling of mothers and will not be considered during this. The Federal Criminal Judge Combs decided during the April session that most of the evidence for pre -sexual assaults against combs is not listed in the complaint will not be allowed in the trial.
The ruling will not be broadcast on TV
The trial of the comb will not be broadcast, according to the rules of the federal court. Any images of the court may come from the forensic artist. the CNN You will have reports from journalists inside and outside the court, on linear and digital platforms, where the trial will be revealed.
Who is the judge
judge Aaron Supramian He will be responsible for the case of combs.
Subramanian took office in 2023 after his appointment by President Joe Biden in 2022. He spent most of his career at the law firm Suzman Jodfrey as a civil leader after working as a legal assistant for Supreme Court Judge Ruth Badr Ginsburg.
Judge Robin F. Tarnovsky is the first judge attended by Coms after his arrest. Then the case of nations was randomly assigned to the provincial judge Andrew Carter, who later refused before transferring the case to Supraman.
Carter and Tarnovsky had previously rejected the requests of combed lawyers to release them under the sponsorship after his arrest. He was rejected for the third time in November, when Subramanian decided that there are no conditions for eliminating concerns that rain could be involved in manipulating witnesses.
Who are the lawyers
Mark Agnifilo E Words of Giragos These are the two main laws, who represent combs. Brian Steel, who represented rapper Young, was added in his last referee to blackmail in Georgia, to the legal team in April.
Agnifilo also represented “Pharma Bro”, Martin Shkreli, founder of NXIVM Keith Ranier and Goldman Sachs Roger NG. He worked for Brafman & AssociaTate Law Firm from 2006 to 2024, when he separated from Agnifile Intater.
GERAGOS is a founding partner for Agnifilo Intater and the daughter of Marc Geragos, a strong criminal defense lawyer who included his customers Brother Mindez I Michael Jackson.
The US Prosecutor’s Office of the United States for the southern region of New York referred to Koms in 2024, with American prosecutors, Merridith Foster, Emily A. Johnson, Christie Slavic, Madison Redik Smisser and Metzi Steiner, who runs the case by the government, according to the press report in the United States.
Who are the witnesses
The government has determined four victims in the court’s actions that must be tried.
During a preliminary hearing on April 18, the judge under Al -Ramani decided that three of the four alleged victims mentioned in the complaint may witness under borrowed names. The person referred to as “the victim 1” in the complaint, Cassi VinteroraHis ex -girlfriend from the rainHe chose to testify his name. The “victim 3” also chose to witness the use of her own name, according to the court document.
Ventura filed a lawsuit against Coms in 2023, and claimed that he raped her in 2018 and submitted her to years of frequent physical abuse and other types of abuse throughout her relationship. Combs denied Ventura’s allegations at the time and solved Ventura the day after the presentation.
In May 2024, Combs was seen attacking and pulling Ventura in a 2016 video clip, published for the first time by CNN. Two days after the video was published, Combs apologized for the physical attack on Ventura. “My behavior in this video is unforgivable. I take full responsibility for my actions in this video,” he said in a video posted on Instagram.
During a preliminary hearing in April, Subramanian decided that the photos will be shown in the form of jury in the trial after several attempts by COMBS lawyers to exclude them.
*Kara Scanel, Elizabeth and Wagster, Sandra Gonzalez, Nikki Brown, Eric Levinson, Lauren del Valley of the CNN.
Understanding the case involving the rapper Sean “Dedi” Comes
