A call in Friday’s third bail listening to for Sean “Diddy” Combs was delayed till Monday, with the decide weighing the case and asking for extra data on proposed situations for the beleaguered rapper’s potential residence confinement as he awaits his racketeering and intercourse trafficking trial, which is about for Could.
U.S. District Choose Arun Subramanian advised each events submit proposals by Monday at midday concerning what kind of communications Combs would have the ability to have interaction in have been he to be granted residence confinement, Inside Metropolis Press reported from the courtroom on Friday afternoon. Prosecutors stated the hip hop impresario “can’t be trusted” to observe the foundations of pretrial launch whereas the protection stated its proposals are “much more restrictive” than jail situations, together with limiting cellphone calls to legal professionals, limiting guests, conserving a customer log and avoiding contact with witnesses.
The now infamous video of Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie, at a Los Angeles lodge was introduced up as proof that the rapper might grow to be violent if launched. That notion was shot down by protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo.
“If what the federal government is afraid of is that Mr. Combs goes to be violent towards somebody there’s simply zero likelihood of that taking place,” Agnifilo stated.
Combs entered a not responsible plea on the federal expenses in September and, in a press release after his arrest, Agnifilo stated the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace is pursuing an “unjust prosecution.”
“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving household man and confirmed philanthropist who has spent the final 30 years constructing an empire, adoring his youngsters and dealing to uplift the Black neighborhood,” Agnifilo, a former federal and state prosecutor, stated. “He’s an imperfect particular person, however he’s not a felony.”
For the upcoming weekend and if the bail request shouldn’t be granted, Combs, 55, will stay held on the infamous Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn till he faces a New York jury over the intercourse trafficking and conspiracy expenses. The near-billionaire doubtlessly faces 15 years minimal in jail, if discovered responsible. Two judges have beforehand declined to launch Combs from custody, citing potential witness tampering within the case as the important thing motive he should stay locked up earlier than his trial.
Combs arrived in court docket on Friday in an MDC tan uniform on Friday, the place his household watched from the galley as his lawyer proposed a $50 million bail for his launch from Metro and into residence confinement; intensive situations have been proposed, together with 24/7 safety to make sure that the rapper, who is taken into account a flight danger, stays on the premises.
On Nov. 15, prosecutors shut down the thought of permitting Combs again onto the streets in a court docket submitting, detailing the rapper’s dangerous jailhouse habits, a lot of which intently displays the actions and coercive strikes that he’s accused of within the federal case filed towards him and the various civil fits raining down on him.
Combs made “relentless efforts to contact potential witnesses, together with victims of his abuse who might present highly effective testimony towards him,” prosecutors stated.
Nonetheless, the hip-hop mogul’s authorized workforce filed a rebuttal court docket doc on Monday, calling foul on prosecutors for seizing what they are saying is attorney-client privileged materials from his jail cell at Metro. His handwritten notes about protection witnesses and ideas on authorized methods for his looming trial have been amongst what was taken away. Earlier this week, a decide dominated that prosecutors should delete the pictures of handwritten notes; excerpts of the notes have been forbidden from in the present day’s bond listening to.
