A federal decide in New York declined on Monday to grant Sean “Diddy” Combs bail, discovering no “distinctive causes” to launch him previous to his October sentencing.
Combs was convicted of transportation to have interaction in prostitution, which the decide stated mandates incarceration. His sentencing is ready for Oct. 3.
Choose Arun Subramanian stated Combs stays a danger of flight and a hazard to the group, pointing to the violence exhibited on 2016 lodge surveillance footage that exhibits him kicking and dragging Cassie Ventura.
Sean “Diddy” Combs attends Day 1 of 2023 Make investments Fest at Georgia World Congress Middle on August 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Protection attorneys stated Combs transported male escorts not for revenue or beneath duress however to hitch his “swingers way of life,” arguing these distinctive circumstances warranted launch. The decide stated that argument “may need traction” in a unique case however not one which included proof of violence, coercion or subjugation in reference to the prostitution.
“The report right here accommodates proof of all three,” Subramanian stated.
“Whereas Combs could contend at sentencing that this proof ought to be discounted and that what occurred was nothing greater than a case of keen ‘swingers’ using the voluntary companies of escorts for his or her mutual pleasure, the Authorities takes the alternative view: that Cassie Ventura and Jane have been overwhelmed, coerced, threatened, lied to, and victimized by Combs as a part of their participation in these occasions,” the opinion stated. Combs additionally argued for launch on bail due to the squalor and hazard on the Metropolitan Detention Middle. However the decide stated jail employees “has been in a position to maintain him secure,” even throughout an incident of threatened violence from an inmate, based on the opinion. The decide’s order didn’t elaborate on the character of the risk or what jail employees did to mitigate it.
Combs has been incarcerated on the federal jail in Brooklyn for 11 months.
Following an eight-week federal trial, a jury convicted Combs final month of two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution however acquitted him of extra critical intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy prices.
Subramanian denied him bail following the decision, citing then as nicely the violence that was “starkly depicted” within the 2016 lodge safety footage.
