New York
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Family, friends, former staff and enterprise associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs submitted greater than 70 letters asking a federal decide for leniency ahead of his sentencing subsequent week.
“I don’t know how much longer I will be around but I would love to be able to see him and his children together again,” Janice Combs, his 84-year-old mom who often attended his trial, mentioned in a signed a letter explaining her well being struggles to the decide.
Combs is scheduled to be sentenced October 3.
His legal professionals have requested Judge Arun Subramanian to condemn the disgraced music mogul to not more than 14 months in jail, together with his time already served, after being convicted on two costs of transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Each depend carries a sentence of as much as 10 years in jail.
If the decide agrees to the legal professionals’ request, he’d basically assure Combs’ imminent release from federal detention in Brooklyn, New York, the place he’s been since his September 2024 arrest.
Judge Subramanian has denied Combs bail a number of occasions, together with after his July conviction.
Prosecutors, who may even submit a sentencing suggestion earlier than the listening to, have beforehand mentioned Combs ought to face a minimal of 4 to 5 years in jail and may nonetheless argue for a steeper sentence.
In July after a greater than six-week trial, a jury acquitted Combs of the extra severe costs he confronted – racketeering conspiracy and two counts every of intercourse trafficking.
In their Monday submitting, Combs’ legal professionals mentioned the court docket’s probation division suggestion of 70 to 87 months in jail is “infected” with errors and “grossly overstates the seriousness of the offense.”
In the 380-page submitting, Comb’s attorneys touted his violence-free document whereas in federal detention and contributions to his fellow inmates.
The music mogul has labored with inmates in his unit and developed a enterprise and entrepreneurship program he calls “Free Game with Diddy,” in response to the submitting.
His attorneys attribute a lot of Combs’ reform in jail to sobriety, saying he’s sober for the primary time in 25 years.
“Since tapering off Xanax, quitting alcohol, and illicit substances, his angry actions have disappeared,” they wrote within the submitting.
His adopted-sister Keisha Combs wrote in her letter to Judge Subramanian that she visits Combs in detention and has seen the constructive results of his sobriety.
“The dark veil of addiction, confusion, and the chaos of his life is gone,” she wrote.
Many of the letters submitted to Judge Subramanian acknowledge the music mogul’s flawed conduct revealed throughout his trial and requested the decide to think about his constructive character traits and current private development.
His former girlfriend, rapper “Yung Miami,” and Dana Tran, the mom of his youngest daughter, described the family-oriented model of Combs they know of their letters to the decide.
Combs’ son Christian, who’s often known as King Combs, informed the decide his father doesn’t should be in jail.
“I’m asking you to please let my father out of jail! He does not deserve to be there and I know this from the bottom of my heart !!,” he wrote.
Combs’ stepson Quincy Brown, whose mom is the late mannequin and actress Kim Porter, and Combs’ oldest son Justin acknowledged the mogul’s imperfections however praised him as a father.
“My dad is not perfect. I know he has made mistakes, and I do not deny that,” Justin Combs wrote. “I humbly ask you, from the deepest part of my heart, to see my father the way I do — not through headlines, but through the eyes of a son who loves and needs him. Please allow him the chance to come home, to be the father his children desperately need, and to continue the work of becoming the man I know he is capable of being.”