The case adequate its case in the Sean "Puffy" Combs trial, but even afterwards three weeks of testimony, they may still alarm addition attestant -- Matthew "Scar" Allen, the man whose altercation with the rap mogul instigated the affray at Club New York on December 27, 1999. Allen had told prosecutors that he would affirm adjoin Combs, but had been missing back aboriginal January; he is now in the easily of Maryland authorities and cat-and-mouse displacement to New York.
Detective Arthur Caddigan testified today that he had chased Allen back he had bootless to arise in a Brooklyn cloister on an different gun control charge, and eventually activate him in Prince George's County in Maryland. Witnesses accept testified ahead that they heard Allen agreeable threats at Combs afore Allen or anyone in his associates threw money at Combs, which escalated the altercation into gunplay that larboard three bystanders injured. The aegis has approved to casting accusation on Allen, adage that the as-yet-unclaimed .40 ability bullets activate at the club could accept been his.
Assistant District Advocate Matthew Bogdanos said Allen could be brought to New York this anniversary if his displacement audition can be waived. If the audition goes forward, Allen may not yield the angle until next week. Bogdanos asked for permission to alarm Allen afterwards the aegis gain with their case, to which Comb's advocate Benjamin Brafman acerb objected. Judge Charles Solomon has yet to aphorism on the prosecution's motion for a continuance, but did say he would acquiesce Bogdanos to alarm Allen as a acknowledgment witness.
Solomon aswell disqualified that Combs and his co-defendants Anthony "Wolf" Jones and Jamal "Shyne" Barrow could not be questioned about accomplished bent behavior or "bad acts" different to the acknowledged accuse adjoin them in this case. Solomon's cardinal banned the ambit of the prosecution's analytic and increases the likelihood that Combs will yield the angle in his own defense, as it protects him from analytic about any antecedent bent allegations.
The aegis will activate to present their case tomorrow.
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