Marc A. Agnifilo

Marc A. Agnifilo represented Sean Combs as defense trial counsel, conducting witness examinations and addressing recurring evidentiary disputes. He argued that proposed cross-examination should depend on the testimony opened at trial, resisted advance disclosure requirements beyond Rule 16 while agreeing to practical production, and pressed for context in text-message evidence. The court required disclosure of relevant marked exhibits before Ventura's cross-examination and excluded challenged text content under Rule 412 while permitting other relationship questioning and possible redactions.

Agnifilo's mapped cross-examinations developed several distinct evidentiary themes. With Kerry Morgan and David James, he tested recollections, prior accounts, financial arrangements, and workplace conduct. With George Kaplan and Capricorn Clark, he pressed details of their employment relationships, observations, and records bearing on disputed events. His questioning of Lance Jimenez addressed partial female DNA, an uncollected glove, and gaps in the Porsche-fire investigation; questions to Derek Ferguson developed company financial controls and the limits of the CFO's observations; and his cross-examination of Andre LaMon focused on the location, accessibility, and original placement of recovered firearms.

In closing, Agnifilo argued that admitted domestic violence did not itself prove racketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor, drug distribution, or coercion, and he urged the jury to evaluate the relationships, workplace evidence, and recorded events against the elements of the charges. After prosecutors objected that parts of the defense summation invited speculation about charging decisions, the defense maintained that the remarks were fair argument and objected to an immediate instruction. The court ruled that charging decisions were outside the jury's consideration and gave a curative instruction.