Sean “Diddy” Combs to stay detained forward of sentencing on prostitution-related fees

Sean “Diddy” Combs will stay detained after a jury discovered him responsible Wednesday of transportation to have interaction in prostitution in his high-profile trial in New York Metropolis. The music mogul was acquitted of the extra extreme fees of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking.

Choose Arun Subramanian mentioned he denied bail for Combs as a result of he disagreed with the protection’s argument that the crimes should not set off obligatory detention. Combs was convicted of two counts of prostitution-related fees. Every rely carries a most sentence of 10 years in jail. 

Combs will get 10 months credit score for time served to date, the decide mentioned Wednesday, proposing a sentencing date of Oct. 3.

After leaving courtroom, Combs’ lawyer declined to touch upon the bail denial, saying “lots of this stuff are nonetheless in course of.”

“We’re not practically performed preventing,” protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo instructed reporters exterior U.S. District Courtroom in decrease Manhattan. “In the present day was a serious, main step in the correct course, however we combat on and we’re gonna win, and we’re not gonna cease till he walks out of jail a free man to his household.”

Prosecutors beforehand mentioned their preliminary calculations point out Combs ought to get a minimum of 51 to 63 months imprisonment on the 2 convictions, or a sentence of roughly 4 to 5 years. They instructed the decide Wednesday that Combs is rich and able to fleeing.

Combs has additionally proven no regret or remorse in abusing his ex-girlfriend “Jane,” the prosecution mentioned, including that the protection’s suggestion that Combs slapping Jane whereas she was within the bathe was in self-defense is “insulting.” 

Combs was discovered responsible of transportation to have interaction in prostitution involving Jane. He was additionally accused of intercourse trafficking Jane by drive, fraud or coercion, a cost the jury discovered him not responsible of. 

Jane had instructed the courtroom she usually participated in what she referred to as “lodge nights,” which additionally concerned medicine. She testified she would have intercourse with a male escort whereas Combs watched. She mentioned she instructed Combs many occasions that she did not wish to have intercourse with different males and did not just like the “lodge nights.” 

Prosecutors mentioned Combs had medicine and provides for one more act of prostitution within the New York lodge the place he stayed — and likewise invited Jane to come back — earlier than he was arrested.

Following the seven-week jury trial, Combs’ attorneys moved to have him launched from the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn the place he has been held throughout the trial. They argued that the 55-year-old had been acquitted of probably the most severe fees and that “continued detention of Mr. Combs is inappropriate.”

“He’s a person who’s within the means of engaged on himself. He is been a mannequin prisoner,” Combs’ lawyer instructed the decide. “I simply suppose we must always belief him” that he isn’t going to flee, the protection mentioned.

The protection mentioned Combs ought to have the ability to return to his Miami house, emphasizing that this was his first conviction. In a submitting submitted to the decide on Wednesday, Combs’ authorized group mentioned he got here to New York to give up as a result of he was “dedicated to displaying his innocence” and that Combs must be launched pending sentencing.

The attorneys cited circumstances beneath the Bail Reform Act that states “a defendant who has been discovered responsible of an offense is entitled to launch pending sentencing if the Courtroom finds by ‘clear and convincing proof’ that he ‘will not be prone to flee or pose a hazard to the security of some other particular person or the group if launched.'”

Federal prosecutors, nonetheless, argued that the Bail Reform Act dictates that Combs ought to stay in custody.

Of their submitting to the decide, prosecutors mentioned the crimes Combs was convicted of “represent crimes of violence and mandate detention following the defendant’s conviction.”

“As detention is obligatory following a conviction of a Mann Act offense, the Authorities has been unable to find a case wherein a defendant was launched from custody following such a conviction,” prosecutors mentioned.

Alice Gainer

contributed to this report.