Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has requested a court docket to be launched from jail to arrange for his trial in Could, citing modified circumstances and new proof.
Legal professionals for the hip hop mogul, who was arrested on racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking costs in September, filed the brand new request for bail in a Manhattan federal court docket.
The 55-year-old’s three earlier requests for bail have been rejected, with judges saying there was a threat he could tamper with witnesses.
Combs has been awaiting a 5 Could trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
He has pleaded not responsible to costs that he coerced and abused ladies for years with assist from a community of associates and workers, whereas silencing victims by means of blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
Of their court docket submitting, Combs’s legal professionals say they’re proposing a “far more robust” bail package deal that will topic the entertainer to strict around-the-clock safety monitoring and near-total restrictions on his means to contact anybody however his legal professionals.
The amount of cash the legal professionals have connected to the package deal is $50m (£38.7m) – the identical as earlier bail requests.
Combs’s legal professionals additionally cited new proof that they are saying “makes clear that the government’s case is thin”.
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That proof, the legal professionals stated, refutes the federal government’s declare {that a} March 2016 video exhibiting Combs bodily assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred throughout a coerced “freak off” – the title given to drug-fuelled sexual performances Combs and his associates allegedly subjected his victims to that usually had been recorded and lasted days.
Legal professionals wrote that the encounter was as a substitute “a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship” between Combs and his then-girlfriend.
Combs’s legal professionals additionally claimed that his jail circumstances violated his constitutional rights to take part in his defence.
US district choose Arun Subramanian, who’s overseeing the prison case, denied a further request from Combs for a gag order barring his accusers from talking publicly concerning the matter.
His legal professionals had argued that the roughly 30 civil instances accusing Combs of misconduct or abuse had been interfering together with his proper to a good trial.
