In Sean Combs Case He
Requests Trial Delay Citing
Slow Discovery and Blaming
Prosecutors
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 16 – At 4:30 pm on
September 16 Inner City Press
was told by its SDNY source to
expect "the big one" - Sean
Combs - the next day in the
courtroom here.
At US Attorney
Damian Williams' press
conference Inner City Press
asked if his office would be
seeking detention - Yes, he
said. Detention memo on
Patreon here.
[Inner City Press
published book / audio book
Diddy Do It? on Sept 20 on
Amazon here]
On December 16,
in the run-up to the December
18 conference, letter on
Patreon here.
On the evening of
Sunday, February 23 Combs'
remaining lawyers filed a
heavily-redacted motion to
suppress evidence seized in LA
and Miami and on iCloud, on
Patreon here
On April 7 Combs
moved to exclude evidence,
Redacted Memo on Patreon here
On April 8 Warner
Brothers filed a motion to
quash Combs' subpoena about
"The Fall of Diddy," memo of
law on Patreon here
On April 9 the US
Attorney's Office joined the
motion, on Patreon here
On April 14, on
less than a day's public
notice, Combs was arraigned on
the superseding indictment. Thread.
His lawyers floated the idea
of a two week adjournment and
were told to file a motion in
48 hours, before Friday's
conference at which Alexandra
Shapiro will argue. And Mark
Garagos?
Extra/analysis
on X for
Subscribers here
& Substack
here
On April 16, a
still
redacted copy
of Combs'
sealed April
14 letter
was docketed,
about the
Victim-4
communications
the defense
wants, letter on Patreon here
Later
on April
16, Combs'
request for
delay in
trial, "with
discovery
seemingly
incomplete on
a 15-year
mandatory
minimum count,
we cannot, in
good
conscience, go
to trial on
the scheduled
date. This is
a problem that
the government
has created,
yet it opposes
our reasonable
request [REDACTED]"
- on Patreon
here
The case is USA
v. Combs, 1:24-cr-542
(Subramanian)
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