Protection and Prosecution agree on expediting sentencing, the decide will reply in writing.
After the break up verdict within the high-profile Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial had him acquitted of the primary prices of sex-trafficking and racketeering, however convicted of ‘transporting to interact in prostitution’, expectations are operating excessive concerning his sentencing.
The decision in Diddy’s trial was a serious win for the protection, however the preliminary euphoria that overtook the rapper’s camp has drastically subsided.
Choose Arun Subramanian denied Diddy bail, like he had already executed 4 instances earlier than the trial, and his reasoning for the refusal of the $1 million bail bundle – the rapper’s historical past of violence – was understood by analysts to be an indication of bother come sentencing time.
Every of the 2 ‘transporting to prostitution’ prices carry a most punishment of 10 years in jail.
Diddy’s attorneys reportedly need lower than the 21 to 27 months in jail that they imagine the sentencing pointers suggest, and lots of suppose they’ll ask for ‘time served’ which means that he would go free after sentencing.
However prosecutors argue that the rules, making an allowance for his crimes and violent historical past, name for not less than 4 to 5 years in jail.
Initially, the Choose set the sentencing for October, however is open to expediting it, to be mentioned at a convention at the moment (8).
Within the morning, a submitting confirmed that Protection and Prosecution have reached an settlement on earlier dates for the sentencing course of.
In US v. Sean Combs, now joint request that “the sentencing listening to happen on Sept 22, 2025. The Authorities doesn’t object to this schedule, topic to the consent of the US Probation Workplace.” So what if something will they talk about at 2 pm? Will stay tweet it https://t.co/cWevWFMaJq pic.twitter.com/yX1c6GxGdU
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Right now’s courtroom listening to lasted just some minutes, with the Choose saying that he’ll ship his determination on the sentencing dates in writing – presumably over the subsequent few days.
The protection’s urgency within the sentencing – arguing that he’s a single father or mother to 2 younger daughters – additional point out that not solely will they ask for ‘time served’, however that they firmly imagine that they’ll get it.
However most authorized specialists will not be so certain.
Daily Mail reported:
“Robert Shapiro, the lead protection lawyer in Simpson’s notorious homicide trial, stated Diddy would seemingly face two to three-and-a-half years in jail after being acquitted of sex-trafficking and racketeering however convicted for lesser prostitution offenses.
‘Having seen that this decide didn’t launch him on bail, I believe a message could also be coming that you simply’re going to be spending much more time, so no motive to allow you to come out and are available again in,’ Shapiro informed Fox Information Digital.
Shapiro famous that in denying Diddy bail, Choose Arun Subramanian talked about the mogul’s ‘propensity for violence,’ citing the 2016 footage of the rapper assaulting Cassie Ventura in a lodge hallway in Los Angeles.
‘If the decide seems to be at that tape in his thoughts and is reminded about it once more… I believe there’s a actual probability {that a} substantial sentence can be forthcoming,’ the lawyer stated.”
A 2016 surveillance video obtained by CNN reveals Sean “Diddy” Combs violently seize, shove, drag and kick his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura throughout an altercation in a lodge in California. https://t.co/qgD40mRPtQ pic.twitter.com/1u7qJgn3mC
— CNN Breaking Information (@cnnbrk) May 17, 2024
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