Diddy’s Lawyers Request Mistrial

Diddy’s Lawyers Request Mistrial.

Diddy’s lawyers are asking the judge in his federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial to declare a mistrial—again.
Diddy’s defense attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, filed a letter on Saturday that alleges prosecutorial misconduct. Shapiro said federal prosecutors presented “demonstrably false” evidence related to an allegation that the music mogul dangled Bryana Bongolan from a Los Angeles apartment’s 17th-floor balcony in 2016.
Diddy’s team said Bongolan, who is a longtime friend of the mogul’s ex-girlfriend and trial witness, Cassie Ventura, perjured herself during testimony.
Bongolian testified that she was able to document the injuries she received from the attack on Sept. 26, but Diddy’s lawyers displayed hotel receipts to the jury to show that Diddy was in New York from Sept. 24 to Sept. 29 of that year.
“The government knew or should have known this testimony was perjured, and that Ms. Bongolan could not possibly have been injured by Mr. Combs on a Los Angeles balcony in the early morning hours of September 26, or even the day before that,” Shapiro wrote.