Final week, Sean Combs’ attorneys filed a request that the music mogul be launched on bail earlier than his sentencing listening to.
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On Monday, a federal decide denied Sean Combs’ request to be launched on bail pending his sentencing listening to scheduled for Oct. 3. Final month, the hip-hop tycoon was convicted on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution, which every carry a most sentence of 10 years. He was acquitted on the extra severe expenses of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
Combs has been denied bail a number of occasions, each earlier than the trial and after the decision. On July 29, Combs’ protection attorneys filed a movement for his launch on new circumstances, together with a $50 million bond secured by his Miami residence, the place he would reside till the listening to, and turning over his passport to the U.S. Pretrial Providers Company. Within the request, Combs’ attorneys argued their consumer doesn’t pose a hazard to the security of others and there was no authorized precedent for holding Combs in custody solely on the prostitution convictions, in any other case often known as the Mann Act.
“Combs and two of his long-time girlfriends had a personal, intimate life that isn’t unusual in the present day,” the protection letter reads. “It might not have been widespread on June 25, 1910, when the Mann Act, or because it was initially referred to as, the White-Slave Site visitors Act, was handed. However attitudes about intercourse and morality have come a great distance within the final 115 years.”
In his response, Choose Arun Subramanian acknowledged that Combs’ circumstances had not modified since he was final denied bail following the decision. In the course of the trial, prosecutors offered proof of Combs’ bodily assaulting his ex-girlfriends — together with a resort safety footage that confirmed Combs hitting, kicking and dragging the singer Cassie Ventura — and Combs’ protection group conceded that their consumer had dedicated home violence. Because of this, Choose Subramanian wrote, Combs didn’t meet the circumstances for launch.
“Combs’s Mann Act arguments might need traction in a case that did not contain proof of violence, coercion, or subjugation in reference to the acts of prostitution at concern, however the document right here comprises proof of all three,” Choose Arun Subramanian wrote.
The decide acknowledged that Combs additionally offered a flight danger. He addressed the mogul’s issues about circumstances inside the Metropolitan Detention Heart, the jail the place he’s being held in Brooklyn, however dominated it was not adequate purpose for launch.
“As Combs acknowledges, MDC workers has been in a position to preserve him protected and attend to his wants, even throughout an incident of threatened violence from an inmate,” Choose Subramanian wrote.
Combs’ protection attorneys have additionally filed a movement for acquittal or retrial on the Mann Act expenses; Choose Subramanian has not but responded to the request.
