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 interact in prostitution, which the decide mentioned mandates incarceration. His sentencing is about for Oct. 3.
Choose Arun Subramanian mentioned Combs stays a threat of flight and a hazard to the neighborhood, 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 Heart on August 26, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Protection attorneys mentioned Combs transported male escorts not for revenue or below duress however to affix his “swingers life-style,” arguing these distinctive circumstances warranted launch. The decide mentioned 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 document right here comprises proof of all three,” Subramanian mentioned.
“Whereas Combs might 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 providers of escorts for his or her mutual pleasure, the Authorities takes the other view: that Cassie Ventura and Jane have been crushed, coerced, threatened, lied to, and victimized by Combs as a part of their participation in these occasions,” the opinion mentioned. Combs additionally argued for launch on bail due to the squalor and hazard on the Metropolitan Detention Heart. However the decide mentioned jail workers “has been capable of preserve him protected,” even throughout an incident of threatened violence from an inmate, in keeping with the opinion. The decide’s order didn’t elaborate on the character of the menace or what jail workers 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 interact in prostitution however acquitted him of extra severe intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy fees.
Subramanian denied him bail following the decision, citing then as effectively the violence that was “starkly depicted” within the 2016 lodge safety footage.
