Sean Combs’ Defense Team Says Explicit Videos ‘Confirm His Innocence,’ Ask for Electronic Copies
"Their full exculpatory value cannot be investigated and used unless they are electronically produced," the mogul's lawyers say The post Sean Combs’ Defense Team Says Explicit Videos ‘Confirm His Innocence,’ Ask for Electronic Copies appeared first on TheWrap.
Sean Combs’s defense team is asking the court to allow electronic production of nine of the embattled music mogul’s explicit videos, suggesting that they demonstrate his innocence by depicting only sexual activity between consenting adults.
The request to modify the protective order came in a Tuesday letter from Combs’ attorneys to United States District Judge Arnn Subramanian and obtained by TheWrap. The videos in question are currently restricted to in-person supervised viewing.
The defense argues it cannot properly evaluate, enhance, or use the evidence in trial preparation without making electronic copies. The videos are said to depict private, consensual activity between Combs and “Victim I,” and “contradict allegationsof coercion, maniuplation … and disprove any elements of violence, incapacitation, or sex trafficking.”
Prosecutors have fought reproduction of the videos, citing privacy concerns for the alleged victim, who initially provided them to investigators.
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