NCS
—
Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced in a listening to set to be held October 3.
(*3*)
Last week, Combs was found guilty on two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution after an eight-week trial. He faces up to ten years in jail on every depend, although authorized analysts predict he’ll get a lot much less.
He was acquitted of the extra critical expenses 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 advised by Combs’ legal professionals 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 choose shortly after.
The first letter stated the protection proposal was topic to consent from the probation workplace. The second letter, which basically backed off their push to expedite his sentencing, shifted the sentencing listening to again to its authentic date and stated the probation workplace didn’t object to that schedule.
The attorneys and Combs dialed into the distant listening to, but it surely lasted lower than a minute after Subramanian’s deputy advised the attorneys on the decision that the choose 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’ legal professionals requested he be launched on bail, arguing that he was not convicted of any violent offenses.
The choose denied the request to launch Combs on bail, telling Combs’ legal professional 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 acquired a standing ovation when he returned to the Metropolitan Detention Center after the decision in his federal prison trial final week, in accordance to his spokesperson.
Prosecutors had accused Combs of main a criminal enterprise through which he allegedly used threats, violence, compelled labor, bribery and different crimes to coerce his former girlfriends Cassie Ventura and a lady who testified beneath a pseudonym Jane to interact in drug-fueled intercourse performances with male escorts referred to as “Freak Offs” or “hotel nights.”
Combs pleaded not responsible to the costs. His legal professionals argued the so-called “Freak Offs” had 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.