In fighting to be released on bail as early as Thanksgiving, Sean “Diddy” Combs is now turning for help to the one federal defendant more famous than himself: President-elect Donald Trump.
Combs’ lawyers cited Trump on Monday in a legal brief meant to counter prosecutors’ claim that he has improperly tried to influence prospective jurors in his sex-trafficking case through an online public relations campaign.
Combs’ lawyers quote an appellate decision in Trump’s DC election interference case, which asserted that defendants enjoy broad free-speech rights under the First Amendment.
“Only a significant and imminent threat to the administration of criminal justice will support restricting Mr. Trump’s speech,” the DC Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a decision from December that Combs’ lawyers now quote.
Like Trump, Combs is a criminal defendant with the presumption of innocence, the rap mogul’s lawyers wrote Monday.
That means Combs, like Trump or any other federal criminal defendant, has a greater constitutional claim than other trial participants …
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