Diddy Desires Sequestered Jury Choice Course of for Upcoming Trial

Diddy and federal prosecutors are at odds over the jury choice course of for his upcoming felony trial … and his protection crew desires to solid a large internet.

In response to new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Diddy’s authorized squad desires to start jury choice on Might 5 … they usually need to choose from a large pool of 600 jurors.

Prosecutors, in the meantime, need to get began with jury choice subsequent month … proposing an April 21 begin date, which Diddy’s camp is balking at as a result of they need extra time to organize his protection.

Diddy’s camp desires potential jurors to fill out written questionnaires, which might be collected and reviewed earlier than each side can discover an settlement on 12 jurors for the trial.

The feds say they need any potential questionnaire restricted to scheduling conflicts for jurors and nothing extra. Diddy’s camp shouldn’t be indicating what precisely they need to ask potential jurors.

What’s extra, the Unhealthy Boy Information founder desires a sequestered jury choice course of to query jurors individually outdoors the presence of different jurors.

Diddy and prosecutors are additionally butting heads on a possible begin date for the trial …. the feds need a jury seated for opening statements on Might 5, whereas Diddy’s aspect desires to begin jury choice on Might 5 and do the opening statements as soon as they choose the jury.

The requests are a part of Thursday’s explosive courtroom filings … included in the identical doc the place Diddy’s camp claims CNN altered the Cassie beating footage after which destroyed the one identified unique copy of the video.