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 prices following his eight-week trial.
In a brand new court docket submitting, Combs’ defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo mentioned situations on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn have been “harmful,” and mentioned defendants convicted up to now of prostitution-related prices that have been much like Combs’ have been usually launched earlier than their sentencing.
Combs’ sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 3.
“Although Mr. Combs has been a mannequin inmate for his practically year-long interval of confinement, the violent situations 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 have been making an attempt to criminalize Combs’ swinger way of life.
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 ladies mentioned he was typically violent towards them. Ventura mentioned he compelled her into a whole lot of sexual encounters with paid male intercourse employees, whereas Jane recounted quite a few “lodge nights.”
However Combs’ lawyer continues to argue that he “shouldn’t be in jail for this conduct” within the new submitting.
“In actual fact, he will be the solely particular person at present in a United States jail for being any kind of john and definitely 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 equivalent conduct —his girlfriends, the ‘cowboys,’ the company’s leaders, the porn stars and others — stroll free, as they need to.”
Agnifilo argued that the court docket “ought to launch” Combs “on cheap situations” upfront of sentencing.
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The lawyer claimed that Combs “will not be a threat of flight neither is he a hazard to the neighborhood or to any particular individuals.”
“Given the undisputed info that Mr. Combs voluntarily got here to New York to give up on this case upfront 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 residence in Miami previous to his arrest in order that he would personal a house free and clear to safe any bail bundle, and that he has now been acquitted of the Racketeering Conspiracy and Intercourse Trafficking Prices in opposition to him, there is no such thing as a severe argument that he’s a flight threat,” he added within the new submitting.
Agnifilo mentioned that if Combs is launched on situations, he “is not going to be violent to anybody.”
“As we mentioned in court docket, this jury gave him his life again, and he is not going to 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 guardian in any respect,” Agnifilo wrote.
“The Court docket can vogue any set of situations, and Mr. Combs will abide by any situation, to make the Court docket snug that Mr. Combs is not going to be violent towards any particular person.”
Agnifilo added a proposed bail bundle for the rapper with situations together with “a $50-million bond secured by Mr. Combs’ residence in Miami,” which might even be co-signed by three “financially accountable individuals.”
It additionally consists of the situations that Combs “will reside in his residence in Miami,” “Combs’ journey shall be restricted to the Southern District of Florida, the Southern District of New York for legal professional conferences, in addition to airports essential to journey between the 2,” and “Combs’ passport shall be surrendered to Pretrial Companies and he shall not apply for every other passport.”
Combs would even be required to be “positioned beneath the specific supervision of the U.S. Pretrial Companies Company (PTS) and should report back to that company as directed by PTS.”
“If the Court docket finds extra excessive situations mandatory, the Court docket may additionally add any or the entire following situations: residence detention, non-public safety accredited by the Court docket and Pretrial Companies with the fee borne by the defendant, psychological well being remedy, substance abuse remedy, digital surveillance of the defendant or every other situation the court docket deems mandatory,” Agnifilo added of the phrases.
His lawyer added that with the entire situations posed, “Mr. Combs can present by clear and convincing proof that he doesn’t pose a hazard to the neighborhood, and he would absolutely give up to supervision by Pretrial Companies to make sure that the Court docket is aware of that Mr. Combs doesn’t pose a hazard to any particular person.”
Combs’ authorized staff 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 regulation 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 court docket to launch Combs from federal detention on conditional bail to his residence 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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