Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs have requested a federal decide to launch him from jail forward of his sentencing, scheduled for Oct. 3, saying that there are “distinctive causes” why he should not stay behind bars.
Combs was convicted on July 2 on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution in a cut up verdict that acquitted him of two counts of intercourse trafficking and one depend of racketeering conspiracy.
In a letter Tuesday addressed to Decide Arun Subramanian, who presided over Combs’ trial, attorneys for the rap music mogul argued that there have been “distinctive causes” that merited Combs’ launch, stating partly that the legislation beneath which Combs was convicted “has by no means been utilized to information much like these to prosecute or incarcerate some other individual.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs attends Day 1 of 2023 Make investments Fest at Georgia World Congress Heart on August 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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“There has actually by no means been a case, like this one, the place an individual and his girlfriend organized for grownup males to have consensual sexual relations with the grownup, long-term girlfriend as a part of a demonstrated swingers life-style, and has been prosecuted and incarcerated beneath the Mann Act,” the protection letter stated. “Sean Combs shouldn’t be in jail for this conduct.”
The 12-page letter proposes that Combs be launched on $50 million bail and reside in his residence in Miami whereas awaiting sentencing, with any journey “restricted to the Southern District of Florida, the Southern District of New York for legal professional conferences, in addition to airports essential to journey between the 2.”
Although Combs was acquitted of the extra critical intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy fees, Subramanian declined to release him on bail previous to sentencing, citing a provision within the transportation to have interaction in prostitution legislation that he stated presumes detention.
Combs has spent greater than 10 months behind bars on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, New York, since his arrest in Sept. 2024. His attorneys initially attempted and then discontinued efforts to safe an earlier sentencing date for him.
