Sean Combs denied bail whereas awaiting sentencing : NPR

On Monday, a federal decide denied Sean Combs’ request to be launched on bail pending his sentencing listening to scheduled for Oct. 3. Last 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 occasions, each earlier than the trial and after the decision. On July 29, Combs’ protection attorneys filed a movement for his launch on new situations, 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 Services Agency. In the request, Combs’ attorneys argued their shopper 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 called the Mann Act.

“Combs and two of his long-time girlfriends had a private, intimate life that is not uncommon today,” the protection letter reads. “It may not have been common on June 25, 1910, when the Mann Act, or as it was originally called, the White-Slave Traffic Act, was passed. But attitudes about sex and morality have come a long way in the last 115 years.”

In his response, Judge Arun Subramanian said that Combs’ circumstances had not modified since he was final denied bail following the decision. During 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 workforce conceded that their shopper had dedicated home violence. For this motive, Judge Subramanian wrote, Combs didn’t meet the situations for launch.

“Combs’s Mann Act arguments might have traction in a case that didn’t involve evidence of violence, coercion, or subjugation in connection with the acts of prostitution at issue, but the record here contains evidence of all three,” Judge Arun Subramanian wrote.

The decide said that Combs additionally introduced a flight danger. He addressed the mogul’s issues about situations inside the Metropolitan Detention Center, the jail the place he’s being held in Brooklyn, however dominated it was not adequate motive for launch.

“As Combs acknowledges, MDC staff has been able to keep him safe and attend to his needs, even during an incident of threatened violence from an inmate,” Judge Subramanian wrote.

Combs’ protection attorneys have additionally filed a movement for acquittal or retrial on the Mann Act fees; Judge Subramanian has not but responded to the request.