Sean “Diddy” Combs trial potentially at downside as a missing federal government’s witness

EXCLUSIVE: A few hours before opening the statements in Sean’s “Diddy” sex traffic trial should start before a jury still to see, the defense is ready to take advantage of a kind of self -accusation self.

Sunday evening, the American lawyer’s office for the South New York district has not yet restored contact with a key witness against the founder of Bad Boy Records, I hear.

Only a few weeks ago, the victim-3, as he was called in the indictment against Combs, had undertaken to testify in the criminal trial which will probably see the advocacy agreement rejecting the defendant winning in Grammy in prison for the rest of his life if he was convicted. According to court files, projected by the prochege to give it a real name, victim-3.

Now, now embarrassing anywhere, the victim of Noncy can provide Marc Agnifilo de Combres, Teny Geragos and the legal team led by Brian Steel with the tools to bring the file to a stand-strill, at least for the moment. Expected before judge Arun Subramanian around 8:30 a.m. to solidify the jury and hear an update on the victim-3 of the authorities, the defense plans to request a trial or request a delay in the start of the trial, said sources.

The hopes of a declared trial are a bit of a married hail, let’s be honest. The desire for a postponement, on the other hand, has strong legal legs.

Contacted by Deadline earlier on Sunday on the status of the victim-3 and the possible results if it does not testify, the SDNY refused to comment, according to a spokesperson. Sources of application of the law say that they believe that the victim-3 has disappeared from the fears for his security, but would not give any detail. The defense did not respond to the request for comments on the probability that the victim-3 does not participate in the trial and what it could mean.

Preserved at eight weeks, the Criminal trial of the Diddy so hooked follows his arrest last September for racketeering, sex trafficking, transport to engage in prostitution and even more. Apart from the Lower Manhattan Federal Justice Palace, recently, a dozen people were already online Sunday evening before the trial on Monday.

On the other side of the street, certain television crew equipment was already in place, as well as places designated for points of sale such as AP, BBC, local channels and cable newspapers.

One of the big attractions is the former long-term girlfriend of Combres, Cassie Ventura AKA Victive-1, who should testify under her own name on Monday if the trial is displayed.

Now heavily pregnant with herself and the third child of her husband Alex Fine, Ventura was paid in tens of millions at the end of 2023 to quickly abandon her own assault and mistreat a civil action against Combs.

The singer of “Me & U” was pushed under the spotlight in the spring of 2024 when CNN obtained and broadcast an apparently overwhelming hotel and the defense challenged the security images of the 2016 hotel with a half -naked combing Ventura in the corridor and bringing it back to their room. The defense alleges that the images, that their client had previously excused for the violence that has been shown to him, has been tampered with and does not tell the whole story.

If the victim-3 is a non-presentation for the federal authorities, as it seems that it will actually be, the push of the defense argument in its requests for trial and delay on Monday morning will be that the rules of the game have changed with one of the four main witnesses alleging rape and other sordid sexual crimes by comb. One of the practical consequences of this change is that the defense will have to redirect its strategy for its client “Everything about the Benjamins client – and that does not happen overnight.

Whether the judge aware of the subramanian time is or not, he will be determined early tomorrow at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouse.

However, unless the victim-3 arises or a final date for his testimony is established, the defense has a kind of victory in their pocket in both cases. If the judge accepts a trial or a postponement, the victory is obvious. There will be a trial from this week if the judge Subramanian said that the victim-1 / Ventura and two other witnesses will testify with the newly introduced victim-5, and this should be enough. Even if it is the result, the circumstances will have planted the seeds for a rapid call almost if the jury’s verdict does not go in favor of Combs.

Even before the start of the trial itself

Building in the legal equivalent of Trench Warfare for its high -level client since its arrest by the NYPD and the Federal Government, the defense said on May 9 that they concede that 55 -year -old combits had committed “domestic violence” in its 2007 and 2018 relationship with Ventura. Temperating this, the Combs team exclaimed from Ventura, citing “there was mutual violence”. During this May 9 audience, one of the Combs lawyers, Alexandra Shapiro, said at the head of her client at the Defense Table: “The dynamics between these two individuals are at the very heart of this affair.”

Incarcerated in the Brooklyn metropolitan detention center since last fall, Combs will also admit in his years with Ventura and since he had an unconventional sex life and an “swingers” lifestyle. With this, and after having three times pleaded a non-guilty plea, Combs and his team also insisted several times on the so-called “Freak Offs”, and nowhere near the medication and the fueled brutalities bis-toe that the Federals have described them.

In this case, in this case of attempted failure of the $ 50 million surety, allegations of the federals with racial biases and raids at the beginning of 2024 on the Mogul and Miami mogul houses, the missing witness crisis has served for almost a week.

Mentioned almost by side when selecting the jury last week, the subject of the suddenly inaccessible victim-3, appeared on May 9 in what was supposed to be near the formality of an audience. At that time, the assistant American prosecutor of Friday Maurene Comey (yes, a daughter of the former director of the FBI, James Comey, that Donald Trump dismissed in 2017) promised that there would be a yes or no by Eod on the same day if victive-3 would arise or not. There is no indication on the file of the court or otherwise, called a well positioned source, that such an information EOD in both directions has ever been given to the court.

This will not harvest the accusation with judge subramanian

The judge, who practiced commercial and bankruptcy law before the president of the then, Joe Biden divided him on the bench, manages his courtroom with optimistic efficiency which feels imported from the white necklace: he is often a lot in the mode of the project manager while keeping his team on the task and gold testimony.

But Friday, there were concerns and perhaps a touch of irritation in the voice of the judge when he considered the victim of the witness of the missing accusation-3, a last minute call from a jury finalist to be apologized by the case, and the possibility of other potential jurors who try to get out of their service during the weekend. After several days of realization of a jury basin from 150 to 43, in order to reach the 18 which will hear the case (12 jurors and six deputy), the Subramanian judge said on Friday that he was looking for “a certain certainty that you are not going to have the selection of jury of this judge.

Now it could be the least of his concerns on Monday morning.