Diddy files for bail for 4th time, judge rejects gag order request

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(NewsNation) — The past 24 hours for Sean "Diddy" Combs has been a play of denial, developments and details.

Diddy's lawyers filed a 4th petition for bail successful a Manhattan national tribunal Friday, citing caller grounds successful his lawsuit connected enactment trafficking and racketeering charges.

Also connected Friday, a justice rejected his "unprecedented" gag bid request, filed past month, that would barroom victims and their lawyers from speaking publically astir the case.

The rapper's attorneys claimed "inflammatory extrajudicial statements" were impeding his close to a just trial. But Judge Arun Subramanian contended implementing a gag bid would interruption the victims' escaped code nether the First Amendment.

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“The unprecedented alleviation that Combs seeks connected this question is unwarranted,” the justice wrote successful his ruling.

One of the alleged victims' lawyers, Ariel Mitchell, has been granting interviews to NewsNation for respective months, revealing shocking details astir what happened to her client.

Mitchell told NewsNation's "Banfield" Thursday that her client, Courtney Burgess, was given 11 flash drives containing astatine slightest 8 enactment tapes involving 8 celebrities. 

Diddy’s squad “is pissed, to accidental the least," she said.

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In September, Mitchell told NewsNation that different lawsuit of hers was contacted astir the merchantability of 1 of the musician's alleged enactment tapes.

“I tin archer the video was pornographic. This was successful his Atlanta home, and it does look similar the idiosyncratic isn’t looking into the video," Mitchell said. To me, it doesn’t look similar that idiosyncratic knows they’re being videotaped."

“These prospective witnesses and their lawyers person made galore inflammatory extrajudicial statements aimed astatine assassinating Mr. Combs’s quality successful the press," said Diddy's lawyer Marc Agnifilo successful the Oct. 20 motion.

His lawyers person persistently requested the merchandise of their lawsuit since his September arrest, proposing a $50 cardinal bail bundle connected 4 occasions. The erstwhile 3 requests were denied.

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In their 4th request, the projected bail bundle updated its conditions, suggesting Diddy acquisition "strict 24/7 information monitoring" and "near-total restrictions connected Mr. Combs’ quality to interaction individuals different than counsel" during at-home detention.

This “will reasonably guarantee the quality of [Mr. Combs] arsenic required and the information of immoderate different idiosyncratic and the community," the question said.

It besides calls the government's lawsuit "thin."

The defence claims to person received 23.5 terabytes of caller worldly that was chartless astatine the clip of erstwhile hearings.

"The caller worldly demonstrates that the authorities antecedently misrepresented the value of the evidence. And it undermines the government’s assertion that Mr. Combs presents a danger," the question said.

Diddy's proceedings is acceptable for May 5. He remains incarcerated astatine the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center.

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