Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorneys have received a 3rd likelihood to request bail for the music mogul, arguing that he needs to be launched from jail forward of his federal sex-trafficking trial date slated for Might 5, 2025.
The “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper, 54, has been denied bail twice to date — together with his authorized crew’s newest unsuccessful try being shot down final month.
Now, the disgraced hip hop mogul’s attorneys argue that “changed circumstances” are sufficient for him to have the ability to await trial within the consolation of his dwelling.
The worldwide celeb is accused of crafting disturbing orgies he dubbed “Freak Offs,” wherein ladies could be drawn into his orbit, given medicine and compelled into marathon intercourse periods with male prostitutes, the feds mentioned.
The Dangerous Boys Data founder has pleaded not responsible to fees of racketeering and intercourse trafficking, and has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
Of their movement, the protection crew claimed new proof present “that the government’s case is thin.”
Combs’ authorized reps added that unearthed proof goes in opposition to the prosecution’s allegation {that a} video relationship again to March 2016 confirmed Combs bodily abuse a girl throughout a “coerced ‘Freak Off’” — as initially cited within the indictment.
Combs’ attorneys argue that the video in query as a substitute confirmed a mere glimpse “into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship between Mr. Combs and Victim-1,” the movement states.
A bail listening to has been set by US District Choose Arun Subramanian for two p.m. on Nov. 22.
The Publish has reached out to Combs’ reps for remark.
Combs has remained at a federal correctional facility since his Sept. 16 arrest. Previous to his upcoming bail listening to, he was not due again in courtroom till Dec. 18.
Combs final month appealed a Manhattan choose’s no-bail ruling, arguing he needs to be free of jail forward of his intercourse trafficking trial as a result of the prosecutors’ push to maintain him behind bars is “based on speculation.”
His attorneys filed the temporary with the US Court docket of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Oct. 8 as Combs has languished in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention since he was arrested on bombshell federal fees.
On the time, the Manhattan US Lawyer’s workplace efficiently argued to a choose that Combs was a “serial abuser and serial obstructer” who might intimidate witnesses and even flee earlier than his trial.
Nonetheless, Combs’ protection legal professional Alexandra Shapiro claimed the “government’s arguments about the risk of obstruction were based on speculation, resting mainly on untested allegations about communications with witnesses in civil cases and communications initiated by supposed witnesses and not Mr. Combs.”
“The sensationalism surrounding his arrest has distorted the bail analysis: Mr. Combs was not released pending trial, even though he offered to comply with restrictive conditions that would have prevented any conceivable risk of flight or danger,” Shapiro additionally wrote in her authorized temporary.
The submitting got here one month after Combs was denied bail in October — weeks after he was initially denied bail on Sept. 17 on fees he led a wicked prison empire wherein he threatened ladies and compelled them to participate in drugged-up intercourse reveals for over a decade.
Prosecutors argued the music mogul needs to be jailed as a result of he’s an “extreme danger to the community.”
