NEW YORK -- A May 5 trial date was set Thursday in Sean “Diddy” Combs' sex trafficking case, and a prosecutor argued that the jailed hip-hop mogul's lawyers were trying to exclude a “damning piece of evidence” by claiming it was leaked by the government.

The federal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs is scheduled to start May 5, a judge in New York City declared Thursday as federal prosecutors and defense lawyers clashed in court over whether details in the sex trafficking case against the embattled hip-hop mogul are being leaked.