Legal professionals for Sean “Diddy” Combs requested a choose to launch him on a $50-million bond on Tuesday whereas he awaits sentencing in his federal intercourse crimes case.
This comes after a jury convicted Combs of federal prostitution-related offences however acquitted the performer of intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs following his eight-week trial.
In a brand new courtroom submitting, Combs’ defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo mentioned circumstances on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn had been “harmful,” and mentioned defendants convicted up to now of prostitution-related costs that had been just like Combs’ had been usually launched earlier than their sentencing.
Combs’ sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 3.
“Although Mr. Combs has been a mannequin inmate for his almost year-long interval of confinement, the violent circumstances are nonetheless very a lot a priority for Mr. Combs and is an pointless confinement threat,” Agnifilo wrote.
Throughout Combs’ trial, the rapper pleaded not responsible, and his attorneys contended that prosecutors had been attempting to criminalize Combs’ swinger life-style.
In all, 34 witnesses testified, headlined by Combs’ former girlfriends Cassie — the R&B singer born Casandra Ventura — and “Jane,” who testified beneath a pseudonym. Each girls mentioned he was usually violent towards them. Ventura mentioned he pressured her into tons of of sexual encounters with paid male intercourse employees, whereas Jane recounted quite a few “resort nights.”
However Combs’ lawyer continues to argue that he “shouldn’t be in jail for this conduct” within the new submitting.
“In reality, he could be the solely particular person presently in a United States jail for being any type of john and positively the one particular person in jail for hiring grownup male escorts for him and his girlfriend, when he didn’t even have intercourse with the escort himself,” Agnifilo wrote.
“As well as, Mr. Combs is incarcerated whereas everybody else concerned on this similar conduct —his girlfriends, the ‘cowboys,’ the company’s leaders, the porn stars and others — stroll free, as they need to.”
Agnifilo argued that the courtroom “ought to launch” Combs “on cheap circumstances” prematurely of sentencing.
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The lawyer claimed that Combs “shouldn’t be a threat of flight neither is he a hazard to the neighborhood or to any particular folks.”
“Given the undisputed info that Mr. Combs voluntarily got here to New York to give up on this case prematurely of his arrest, that he surrendered his passport to his attorneys six months earlier than his arrest, that he paid off the excellent mortgage on his dwelling in Miami previous to his arrest in order that he would personal a house free and clear to safe any bail package deal, and that he has now been acquitted of the Racketeering Conspiracy and Intercourse Trafficking Costs towards him, there isn’t a critical argument that he’s a flight threat,” he added within the new submitting.
Agnifilo mentioned that if Combs is launched on circumstances, he “won’t be violent to anybody.”
“As we mentioned in courtroom, this jury gave him his life again, and he won’t squander his second likelihood at life, nor would he do something to additional jeopardize his seven kids not having a father, and 4 of his kids not having a dad or mum in any respect,” Agnifilo wrote.
“The Court docket can trend any set of circumstances, and Mr. Combs will abide by any situation, to make the Court docket comfy that Mr. Combs won’t be violent towards any particular person.”
Agnifilo added a proposed bail package deal for the rapper with circumstances together with “a $50-million bond secured by Mr. Combs’ dwelling in Miami,” which might even be co-signed by three “financially accountable folks.”
It additionally contains the circumstances that Combs “will reside in his dwelling in Miami,” “Combs’ journey will probably be restricted to the Southern District of Florida, the Southern District of New York for lawyer conferences, in addition to airports essential to journey between the 2,” and “Combs’ passport will probably be surrendered to Pretrial Providers and he shall not apply for another passport.”
Combs would even be required to be “positioned beneath the categorical supervision of the U.S. Pretrial Providers Company (PTS) and should report back to that company as directed by PTS.”
“If the Court docket finds extra excessive circumstances crucial, the Court docket might also add any or the entire following circumstances: dwelling detention, personal safety accredited by the Court docket and Pretrial Providers with the price borne by the defendant, psychological well being remedy, substance abuse remedy, digital surveillance of the defendant or another situation the courtroom deems crucial,” Agnifilo added of the phrases.
His lawyer added that with the entire circumstances posed, “Mr. Combs can present by clear and convincing proof that he doesn’t pose a hazard to the neighborhood, and he would totally give up to supervision by Pretrial Providers to make sure that the Court docket is aware of that Mr. Combs doesn’t pose a hazard to any particular person.”
Combs’ authorized group made the same argument to Decide Arun Subramanian after his sentencing, asking him to grant bail to the hip-hop mogul.
Subramanian declined and mentioned the relevant legislation didn’t enable for Combs’ launch at the moment.
Amongst different causes, the choose famous Combs’ violent historical past: “At trial, the defence conceded the defendant’s violence in his private relationships, saying it occurred with Cassie and Jane.”
After the decision was learn, Agnifilo requested the courtroom to launch Combs from federal detention on conditional bail to his dwelling in Miami, Fla., and provided a $1 million bond. Prosecutor Maurene Comey argued that Combs ought to stay in jail till sentencing.
Subramanian requested the prosecution and defence to every put together a letter arguing their place on whether or not Combs ought to be granted bail, which he later declined.
— With recordsdata from Reuters and The Related Press
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