A federal judge immediately rejected a defense request for a mistrial on Wednesday at the sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, after his attorneys said prosecutors tried to imply to a jury that the music mogul interfered with the investigation into rapper Kid Cudi's firebombed Porsche in 2012.

Although such mistrial requests are common during lengthy federal trials involving hundreds of pieces of evidence and dozens of witnesses, this was the first request at Combs' trial, which is in its third week of testimony in Manhattan. Combs has been active in his defense, regularly writing notes to his lawyers, and they have consulted with him as they questioned witnesses.

Judge Arun Subramanian instructed the jury to disregard testimony about the destruction of fingerprint cards that occ

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