Diddy Attorney Sprong ship over Defense Strategy Battle with Co-Counsel

Clearly Does anyone fight for him on his way to his federal process, because his legal team could not get to the same page with regard to the best defense for him … TMZ learned.

Sources with direct knowledge of Anthony Ricco‘S exit from Diddy’s camp tells us that there had been a power struggle between main lawyer Marc Agnifilo And he for a few months, and it eventually came to a head.

As we reported, Ricco shook from Diddy’s team on Friday morning to inform the judge that he could no longer “effectively” defend his client – but His submission There was no details about why he jumped ship.

We were told that the battle within Team Diddy was aimed at the accusations of sex trade, and there was disagreement about how to deal with that part of the federal indictment when they go to court.

For his part, Agnifilo has repeatedly rejected human trafficking and says instead that the so -called freak offs always concerned consensual sex between Diddy, a friend and a third party. As we have reported, Agnifilo has a motion to take off count 3 of the indictment, all of whom is about the Mann Act … the transport of individuals to ‘start prostitution’.

Our sources say that Ricco became frustrated when his efforts to speak directly with Diddy about legal strategies, were thwarted by Co-Counsel, and that is why he felt that he could not defend the hip-hop mogul properly.

We were also told that Ricco strong believed that they would not be ready to be tried by May 5 – the planned start date – and thought they had to ask the judge for more time. His co-counsel strongly disagreed, push came to push and Ricco Vrede off.

Our sources related to Diddy told us that Ricco’s departure has been highly abolished about nothing, saying main defense lawyers Agnifilo and Tieny Geragos Have been firm for almost a year now.

We have contacted Diddy’s representatives for comment, but not a word back.