Mr. Kraft has objected to the videos’ release. “What is the interest the public has in seeing it? It’s basically pornography,” his lawyer William A. Burck said Friday in a hearing in Palm Beach County, Fla.

Mr. Kraft has filed motions first to keep the video private so as not to prejudice his case, and then to suppress the video from the evidence entirely because, he argued, it was obtained under false pretenses. His lawyers have argued that the police convinced a judge that video surveillance was necessary because the massage parlor was thought to be a part of a human trafficking ring. No one working there has been charged with human trafficking.

The judge in Mr. Kraft’s case has still not ruled on those motions.

The issue over release of the videos is being debated on two fronts: Hua Zhang, 58, and Lei Wang, 39, the two women charged with running a house of prostitution at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa, in Jupiter, Fla., where Mr. Kraft was arrested, have also sought to keep the videos from being made public. The decision to hold off on any release of the videos until a hearing on April 29 was made by Circuit Judge Joseph Marx, who is overseeing the felony case against the two women.

In court last week, prosecutors handling Mr. Kraft’s misdemeanor case had assured the judge that no videos would be released until a judge decided whether they should be made public. But the prosecutors in the separate case against the two women did an about-face, filing court papers Wednesday saying that the law does not give them the legal authority to wait.

Mr. Kraft’s lawyers, Mr. Burck, Alex Spiro and Jack A. Goldberger, wrote a letter to the court accusing the Palm Beach County’s state attorney’s office of “extraordinary and alarming” “gross prosecutorial misconduct.”