[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Diddy thinks the feds are playing dirty! The rapper is on his fourth attempt at getting bail, with his newest hearing scheduled for Friday.
And in an effort to fight for his case, his lawyers are now going after the federal prosecutors by accusing them of giving the judge an edited version of that hotel security camera footage showing the musician violently attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Related: Diddy’s Jail Cell Was Raided — Details! According to a new filing first obtained by TMZ on Thursday, Puff Daddy’s lawyers think prosecutors are trying to mischaracterize and conceal critical facts in the case by supplying the judge with an allegedly edited version of the March 2016 video.
They claim the prosecutors had the complete and unedited version on hand — seemingly the one that was leaked to the public — but opted to use one in which they edited the sequence of events in order to showcase their “most powerful evidence of danger and obstruction.” The big problem, in the eyes of the music mogul and his team, is that the evidence doesn’t reference a “freak-off,” which has been a big factor in his sex trafficking case.
Instead, it shows a “domestic dispute in which he ran down the hall of the hotel to recover his clothes and cellphone.” Ummm.
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