Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs have requested a federal choose 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 interact in prostitution in a cut up verdict that acquitted him of two counts of intercourse trafficking and one rely of racketeering conspiracy.
In a letter Tuesday addressed to Choose 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 partially that the regulation below which Combs was convicted “has by no means been utilized to info 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 Middle 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 way of life, and has been prosecuted and incarcerated below the Mann Act,” the protection letter mentioned. “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 lawyer conferences, in addition to airports essential to journey between the 2.”
Although Combs was acquitted of the extra critical intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy prices, Subramanian declined to release him on bail previous to sentencing, citing a provision within the transportation to interact in prostitution regulation that he mentioned presumes detention.
Combs has spent greater than 10 months behind bars on the Metropolitan Detention Middle 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.
