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- Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorneys have requested that he be launched on a $1 million bond
- Prosecutors stated he stays a “hazard” and have requested the choose to not set bail
- Combs was acquitted of the extra critical fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering however convicted on prostitution-related fees
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorneys have stated they count on him to be sentenced to about two years in jail after he was convicted of two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution on Wednesday, July 2.
That sentence is way lower than the 51 to 63 months sentence that prosecutors have advisable.
The 2 sides addressed Combs’ potential sentence in separate letters to the choose overseeing the case. Combs has already spent 10 months in custody.
Combs was acquitted on Wednesday morning of the extra critical fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He was accused of intercourse trafficking two of his former girlfriends — Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, and a lady who testified underneath the pseudonym “Jane” — and of forcing them to take part in drug-fueled intercourse classes with male escorts that he referred to as “freak offs” or “resort nights.” Combs had denied all the costs and stated that the sexual acts had been consensual.
Of their letter to U.S. District Decide Arun Subramanian, Combs’ attorneys promised the choose overseeing his federal case that he won’t contact escorts or prostitutes if he’s launched on bond. His attorneys requested that he be launched on a $1 million bond, co-signed by his mom, sister and Sarah Chapman, the mom of his oldest daughter, Probability.
Prosecutors requested the choose to not set bail, saying of their letter to Decide Subramanian that Combs stays a hazard to the group as a result of he might nonetheless commit prostitution crimes and since in June 2024 — three months earlier than his arrest and whereas he was conscious he was underneath federal investigation — he allegedly “brutally assaulted” Jane. And, they alleged, when he was in New York Metropolis awaiting his arrest final 12 months, he was in possession of medication and supplies related to a “Freak off.”
However Combs’ attorneys rejected the federal government’s suggestion that he might nonetheless be a hazard as a result of “he nonetheless had the means and talent to commit prostitution crimes.”
“With all due respect, that suggestion is unsupported,” Combs’ attorneys wrote. “The federal government had, for an prolonged time period, a pen register on his telephone. Mr. Combs by no means referred to as any potential escorts or prostitutes, nor did he make any effort to rearrange conferences with escorts or prostitutes, nor was he with Jane in New York.”
Combs’ attorneys wrote that cheap circumstances would be sure that he wouldn’t have the flexibility to rearrange conferences with escorts. Combs may very well be sentenced as much as 20 years in jail on the transportation for prostitution fees — 10 years for every cost. He will probably be sentenced at a later date.
The listening to on whether or not Combs will probably be launched on bond is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. ET.