A federal appeals courtroom decide has dominated to maintain Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up whereas he makes a 3rd bid for bail in his intercourse trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in Could.
In a call filed Friday (Oct. 11), Circuit Choose William J. Nardini denied the hip-hop mogul’s speedy launch from jail whereas a three-judge panel weighs his bail request.
Combs’ legal professionals appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals on Sept. 30 after two judges rejected his launch.
Combs, 54, has been held at a federal jail in Brooklyn since his Sept. 16 arrest on fees that he used his “energy and status” as a music star to induce feminine victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male intercourse employees in occasions dubbed “Freak Offs.”
Combs has pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking fees alleging he coerced and abused ladies for years with assist from a community of associates and workers whereas silencing victims by way of blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
At a bail listening to three weeks in the past, a decide rejected the protection’s $50 million bail proposal that will’ve allowed the “I’ll Be Lacking You” singer to be positioned beneath home arrest at his Florida mansion with GPS monitoring and strict limits on guests.
Choose Andrew L. Carter Jr., who has since recused himself from the case, stated that prosecutors had introduced “clear and convincing proof” that Combs is a hazard to the neighborhood. He stated “no situation or set of circumstances” might guard in opposition to the danger of Combs obstructing the investigation or threatening or harming witnesses.
Of their attraction, Combs’ legal professionals argued that the decide had “endorsed the federal government’s exaggerated rhetoric” and ordered Combs detained for “purely speculative causes.”
“Certainly, hardly a danger of flight, he’s a 54-year-old father of seven, a U.S. citizen, an awfully profitable artist, businessman, and philanthropist, and one of the vital recognizable folks on earth,” the legal professionals wrote.
Combs’ legal professionals haven’t requested the brand new trial decide, Arun Subramanian, to contemplate releasing him on bail. At a listening to Thursday, as Combs sat alongside his legal professionals in a beige jail jumpsuit, Subramanian advised he would at the least be open to taking on the problem.
After setting a Could 5 trial date, Subramanian briefly questioned Combs’ legal professionals about his therapy on the Metropolitan Detention Heart, which has been tormented by violence and dysfunction for years.
Combs lawyer Mark Agnifilo, who had beforehand sought to have him moved to a jail in New Jersey, instructed the decide: “We’re making a go of the MDC. The MDC has been very responsive for us.”
One other Combs lawyer, Anthony Ricco, instructed reporters exterior the courthouse afterward: “He’s doing positive. It’s a tough circumstance. He’s making one of the best of the state of affairs.”
However, Ricco stated: “No person’s OK with staying in jail for now.”
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