SEAN COMBS lawyers claimed on Friday that the leaked security video shows that Mr. Combs attacked his ex -girlfriend was “misleading”, and said they would request that they would not be allowed as evidence in his upcoming accusation of trading in sex and conspiracy.
That video, Recorded at a hotel in Los Angeles In 2016, CNN was broadcast by Mr. Combs last year. It turned out that hitting, digging and pulling the Casandra Ventura, his ex -girlfriend and an artist who once signed his recording company under her stage, Cassie.
Marc AgniFilo, a lawyer for Mr. Combs, said the forensic analysis of CNN security shots showed that the video was accelerated from the original source, that the events were shown from the sequence and that the time grades on the original tape were covered.
“It’s misleading evidence,” Mr. AgniFilo said. Mr Combsa’s lawyers, however, did not define how the change in sequencing would affect the understanding of the viewer about what happened.
Mr. Combs’ legal set to start in May.
In his statement, CNN denied the spokesperson. “CNN has never changed the video and has not destroyed the original copy of the shots that have been maintained by the source,” the statement said.
Mr. Combs’ lawyers do not question that CNN shots show that Mr. Combs attack Mrs. Ventura. After the network was first broadcast in May Mr. Combs apologized And he said he took over for his actions “full responsibility”.
Mitzi S. Steiner, one of the prosecutors who deal with this case, called the shots of critical evidence and denied that he was deceptive. She said the government had no original tracking shots, although she said she had a copy on a device that shows the original.
“That’s the key evidence trying to keep out,” Mrs. Steiner said.
Judge Arun Subramananian asked both parties to achieve a compromise on shots, suggesting that if it were outside the sequence, they could find a way to correct or slow in a way that reflects the original.
The shots are the central point of government accusations that Mr. Combs had traded with Mrs. Ventura, and was part of his argument that Mr. Combs was of violent nature and should remain imprisoned without deposit. Begged not to blame for charging and be detained Federal detention center in Brooklyn since his arrest.
The prosecutors said the video shows that Mr. Combs tries to drag Mrs. Ventura back to the hotel room where sexual meeting known as “madman” – which government claims to have been forced – recently occurred. Mr Combsa’s lawyers claimed that violence was not associated with sex, but to an infidelity dispute.
At the end of 2023, Mrs. Ventura Accused Mr. Combs of the years of abuse in court proceedings that led to a criminal investigation. They settled quicklyand the music tycoon denied the abuse of someone but dozens of other suits This was followed by Mr. Combsa’s accusation of similar behavior.
Since his September arrest Mr. Combs, 55, he faced accusations of running a “criminal enterprise” dealing with trading in sex, kidnapping and arsonism, including alleged crimes. The prosecutors claim that Mr. Combs had a pattern of women’s manipulation to augmented sexual meeting, which sometimes included male prostitutes. He is accused of maintaining control of women through physical violence, drugs and financial support.
His lawyers called the flood of accusations and depressed media coverage of “circus” and in recent months Mr. Combs fought back by submitting his own litigation against media companies and The man who said he had sexual tapes Mr. Combs.
His lawyers previously accused the government of leakage of video to CNN. The prosecutors rejected this, and Judge Subramanian said without processing that there was convincing evidence that the source was not a government.
At the meeting, Mr. Combs begged not to blame the altered accusations that were not closed this month. The accusation contained new accusations that Mr. Combs had forced certain employees to work for hours, with a small sleep and forced one employee to sex.
Mr. Combs lawyers claimed that he had never suited anyone to sexual acts and that this case was revolving around consensual relations with his girlfriends – one of them was with him for about ten years. They argued that Mr Combs was unfairly focused on socially accepted behavior: hiring accompaniment.
It is estimated that the trial lasts about eight weeks, and the jury selection starts at the end of April.
