Robert Kraft’s powerful legal team is “surprised and disappointed” that prosecutors have denied their request to stop the “sexual and graphic” videos from inside the Asian spa going public.

Kraft’s lead attorney William Burck revealed that the West Palm Beach State Attorney has refused to agree to the request for a protective order over the evidence in the case, including the hidden video footage of the men inside the Orchids of Asia Spa.

Lawyers for Kraft, 77, and 14 other men charged with soliciting prostitution had filed the motion this week to keep all evidence in the case private. Kraft strongly denies soliciting prostitution.

Burck said, “We put in a motion for a protective order of the evidence in this case, a standard request in any case to keep evidence protected until trial – especially since the video evidence supposedly contains private moments between [two or more] people. We’ve been surprised and disappointed that the state attorney did not sign on to the protective order, because it is a standard procedure in a criminal case. They declined to agree to the protective order.”

A spokesperson for State Attorney Dave Aronberg did not respond to calls and emails. However Sheriff William Snyder, who oversaw what he announced was a human trafficking investigation says he expects the videos – which he described as “explicit, sexual and graphic” – to go public, “Ultimately they are probably going to get released,” he said Thursday on CNBC, “There has to be a specific reason not to release a public record. And the fact that there is sexual activity is not an exemption.” Snyder was not available for further comment.

Kraft’s legal team asserts the video surveillance is illegal under privacy laws. Burck said, “We’ve looked at…the law around the warrant for the video surveillance inside the spa, and we think it is a violation of the fourth amendment. We also believe the traffic stop [made by police as the men left the spa] was illegal and a violation of the constitution.”

Burck, a former federal prosecutor, continued, “Sheriff Snyder and Jupiter police chief Daniel Kerr from the outset have said this is a human trafficking case, but have produced no evidence [to corroborate that]. They have falsely connected Robert Kraft and other men to human trafficking. Now they should correct the record. I have asked that the record be corrected and there’s been no response.

“The state attorney should take a look how the evidence in this case was obtained by the police and explain how this evidence passes constitutional muster, because we don’t see it.” Messages left for Chief Kerr were not immediately returned.

Earlier this week the state attorney’s office offered Kraft and 24 other men accused of soliciting prostitution a chance to have the charges dropped if they agree to make a statement about what they new about the “illegal activity” at the Asian spa and agree they would have been found guilty if the case had gone to trial.

Kraft – who strongly denies knowing that the spa was a house of prostitution – has not accepted the deal, according to sources. Burck refused to detail his discussions with the state attorney over the deal. Kraft is scheduled to be arraigned on March 28.