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 choose 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 interact in prostitution, which every carry a most sentence of 10 years. He was acquitted on the extra severe fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
Combs has been denied bail a number of instances, 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 shopper doesn’t pose a hazard to the security of others and there was no authorized precedent for maintaining Combs in custody solely on the prostitution convictions, in any other case generally known as the Mann Act.
“Combs and two of his long-time girlfriends had a personal, intimate life that isn’t unusual at this time,” the protection letter reads. “It might not have been frequent on June 25, 1910, when the Mann Act, or because it was initially referred to as, the White-Slave Visitors Act, was handed. However attitudes about intercourse and morality have come a great distance within the final 115 years.”
In his response, Decide Arun Subramanian acknowledged that Combs’ circumstances had not modified since he was final denied bail following the decision. Throughout the trial, prosecutors introduced proof of Combs’ bodily assaulting his ex-girlfriends — together with a lodge safety footage that confirmed Combs hitting, kicking and dragging the singer Cassie Ventura — and Combs’ protection group conceded that their shopper had dedicated home violence. For that reason, Decide Subramanian wrote, Combs didn’t meet the circumstances for launch.
“Combs’s Mann Act arguments may need traction in a case that did not contain proof of violence, coercion, or subjugation in reference to the acts of prostitution at situation, however the file right here accommodates proof of all three,” Decide Arun Subramanian wrote.
The choose acknowledged that Combs additionally introduced a flight danger. He addressed the mogul’s issues about circumstances throughout the Metropolitan Detention Middle, 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 hold him secure and attend to his wants, even throughout an incident of threatened violence from an inmate,” Decide Subramanian wrote.
Combs’ protection attorneys have additionally filed a movement for acquittal or retrial on the Mann Act fees; Decide Subramanian has not but responded to the request.
