New York (AP) -Grosnías for Hip-Hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to delay the sexual trafficking trial of May 5 for two months so they can better prepare a defense.
The lawyers told Judge Arun Subramanian that prosecutors have taken to transfer some potential review tests, which makes it difficult to be ready in three weeks.
Prosecutors oppose the application, lawyers said. A prosecutor spokesman declined to comment.
Subramanian wrote in an order response to the request for a delayed trial to address the duration of the problem a hearing scheduled for Friday.
Waiting for the conference, the judge wrote, both parties must proceed as if the early trial of May remained in place.
Combs, 55, has been held without bail since its September trial. He declared innocent of multiple crimes that prosecutors, as occurred in a period of two decades.
In their letter, defense lawyers cited a failure by prosecutors to activate possible trial evidence in a timely matter, including materials related to an accusation of supersding returned by a large jury earlier this month.
For example, lawyers wrote, prosecutors have said they do not comply with a deadline on Wednesday to activate exhibitions and a witness list.
Some evidence still to activate includes materials related to a count in the accusation that entails a minimum mandatory minimum prison sentence of 15 years if a conviction is secured, lawyers said.
As a result, they wrote: “We cannot, in good awareness, go to trial on the scheduled date.”
They added: “This is a problem that the government has created, but opposes our reasonable application.”
The prosecutors say that combs coerced and abused women for years, since he used their “power and prestige” as a music star to enlist a network of associates and employees to help him while silenced the victims through blackmail and physics, including inclusion.