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Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in a listening to set to be held October 3.
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Last week, Combs was found guilty on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution after an eight-week trial. He faces up to ten years in jail on every rely, although authorized analysts predict he’ll get a lot much less.
He was acquitted of the extra severe prices of which he was accused – racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking.
After the verdict was introduced final Wednesday, Judge Arun Subramanian had proposed scheduling the sentencing listening to for October 3, however was informed by Combs’ attorneys that they’d hoped to expedite the method.
Ahead of a distant listening to on Tuesday, attorneys for Combs first proposed a date of September 22 for the sentencing listening to, however they later revised their proposal to October 3 in a subsequent letter to the decide shortly after.
The first letter mentioned the protection proposal was topic to consent from the probation workplace. The second letter, which primarily backed off their push to expedite his sentencing, shifted the sentencing listening to again to its authentic date and mentioned the probation workplace didn’t object to that schedule.
The attorneys and Combs dialed into the distant listening to, however it lasted lower than a minute after Subramanian’s deputy informed the attorneys on the decision that the decide would get again to them about their proposed date.
The music mogul has been in custody on the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest final September. During a bail listening to that adopted the decision final Wednesday, Combs’ attorneys requested he be launched on bail, arguing that he was not convicted of any violent offenses.
The decide denied the request to launch Combs on bail, telling Combs’ lawyer Marc Agnifilo that in his closing arguments he “full-throatedly … told the jury that there was violence here. And domestic violence is violence. And you said this is a case that did involve violence.”
Combs obtained a standing ovation when he returned to the Metropolitan Detention Center after the decision in his federal felony trial final week, in accordance to his spokesperson.
Prosecutors had accused Combs of main a criminal enterprise during which he allegedly used threats, violence, pressured labor, bribery and different crimes to coerce his former girlfriends Cassie Ventura and a lady who testified below a pseudonym Jane to have interaction in drug-fueled intercourse performances with male escorts known as “Freak Offs” or “hotel nights.”
Combs pleaded not responsible to the fees. His attorneys argued the so-called “Freak Offs” have been consensual given his long-term relationships with each Ventura and Jane.
Combs additionally faces dozens of civil lawsuits, for which he has denied all wrongdoing.
NCS’s Alli Rosenbloom contributed to this report.