Sean “Diddy” Combs will stay behind bars till his Could 2025 intercourse trafficking trial. The protection’s third try and free the 54-year-old music mogul was denied on Wednesday. It has been an eventful two weeks within the federal case towards the Dangerous Boy Information founder.
U.S. District Choose Arun Subramanian agreed that the federal government offered “clear and convincing proof” that “that no situation or mixture of situations will moderately guarantee the protection of the neighborhood” if he had been to be launched. The choose cited the “nature and circumstances of the offense charged,” the “weight of the proof” towards the music mogul,” Combs’s “historical past and traits” and “nature and seriousness of the hazard that will be posed by the individual’s launch.”
Combs was denied bail twice earlier than: Combs’s attorneys then proposed an in depth $50 million bundle in hopes of releasing their consumer. The newest supply included residence confinement with GPS monitoring at a New York Metropolis condominium, an accredited record of visitors — with reportedly no feminine guests allowed aside from members of the family — and 24/7 monitoring of Combs by non-public safety. The federal government strongly opposed this because it has accused Combs of witness tampering, even behind bars, and consider he is a hazard to others.
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In his written choice, Subramanian cited expenses set forth within the federal indictment towards Combs. For many years, Combs allegedly “abused, threatened, and coerced girls and others round him to satisfy his sexual wishes, defend his status, and conceal his conduct. To take action, [Combs] relied on the staff, sources, and affect of the multi-faceted enterprise empire that he led and managed—making a legal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and tried to have interaction in, amongst different crimes, intercourse trafficking, compelled labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.”
Combs has pleaded not responsible to all expenses.
Subramanian additionally wrote “there’s compelling proof of Combs’s propensity for violence” as he referenced the 2016 video footage of the rapper showing to beat ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Combs publicly apologized after a resort surveillance video of the incident was leaked earlier this 12 months.
The choose has but to rule on Combs’s jailhouse notes, which had been the topic of a heated listening to final week. Prosecutors gained entry to them after an Oct. 28 sweep of the Metropolitan Detention Heart (MDC) in Brooklyn, N.Y. The federal government claimed it confirmed that the entrepreneur was making an attempt to repay witnesses from jail. Combs’s protection group argued that the notes seen had been “attorney-client privileged materials” they included within the protection’s authorized technique.
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Subramanian mentioned on the Nov. 19 listening to that he’d overview whether or not the notes contained privileged info, which may take weeks, however that he wouldn’t take the notes into consideration when ruling on the difficulty of bail. Nevertheless, he had some questions for the protection on the Nov. 22 listening to about if the protection retroactively wrote “authorized” on the notes in query. The protection group mentioned it was making an attempt to unravel when “authorized” was written on a few of the notes, in accordance with the Interior Metropolis Press.
Combs staying behind bars is no surprise. Authorized specialists beforehand informed Yahoo Leisure that it was probably the choose would uphold the prior rulings as circumstances haven’t drastically modified.
On Sept. 16, Combs was arrested by federal brokers at a Manhattan resort and charged with racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He faces a flurry of civil sexual assault lawsuits as effectively however has maintained his innocence.
