Overview
- After a Friday pretrial hearing, jury selection is set to begin Monday, May 4, in Dedham District Court.
- Judge Jeanmarie Carroll barred any testimony about an alleged prior altercation by Diggs.
- Prosecutors and defense agreed to remove Diggs’s mother from the witness list.
- Lawyers discussed how to present text messages, and prosecutors did not object to a defense expert who will authenticate them.
- Diggs denies the allegations that he struck and choked his private chef during a Dec. 2 pay dispute, and the two-day trial could feature roughly 10 witnesses.