Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs are urging a judge to let prospective jurors at the hip-hop mogul’s upcoming sex trafficking trial be questioned about their views regarding sex, drugs and violence.
The lawyers raised the subject as they submitted a proposed questionnaire to be filled out by individuals summoned for his May 5 trial in Manhattan federal court.
In a letter to a judge late Friday, the lawyers said they want to know the willingness of would-be jurors to watch videos that are sexually explicit or show physical assault.
They also say they want to know their views toward people with multiple sexual partners.
Prosecutors in a letter of their own criticized the defense’s proposed questionnaire as too long and touching on subjects that would be better asked in person by the judge, if at all.
They said some of the defense’s proposed 72 questions, some containing subparts, were “utterly irrelevant to the ability to serve on a jury.”
Prosecutors also cited the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell as an example of how a lengthy questionnaire can be damaging.
