Legal professionals for Sean “Diddy” Combs have referred to as for him to be acquitted of prostitution-related offences, or given a brand new trial on the identical prices.
Combs, 55, was discovered responsible of two counts of transportation for engagement in prostitution on the finish of his high-profile trial in New York earlier this month – for flying girlfriends and male intercourse employees across the US and overseas for sexual encounters known as “freak offs”.
Nevertheless, he was cleared of extra severe prices of racketeering, conspiracy and sex-trafficking.
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Marc Agnifilo is without doubt one of the attorneys on the defence workforce. Pic: Reuters
The hip-hop mogul has been in jail since his arrest in September 2024 and is because of be sentenced in October.
On Tuesday, his attorneys made a renewed request for his launch on a $50m bond forward of the listening to.
Now, they’ve filed one other movement to the court docket, saying it “should either grant a judgment of acquittal or, at a minimum, a new trial” on the prostitution-related offences.
Within the new submitting, Combs’s defence workforce stated the US authorities had “painted him as a monster” ever since his arrest, however argued his two-month trial confirmed allegations of a “20-year racketeering enterprise and of sex trafficking multiple women… were not supported by credible evidence, and the jury rejected them”.
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Additionally they say that to their information, he’s “the only person” ever convicted of those prices for the conduct he was accused of in court docket.
“It is undisputed that he had no commercial motive and that all involved were adults,” the submitting states. “The men chose to travel and engage in the activity voluntarily. The verdict confirms the women were not vulnerable or exploited or trafficked or sexually assaulted during the freak offs or hotel nights.”
They describe the prosecution’s proof on the counts as “thin at best” and say the trial would have been “totally different” had the rapper solely been charged with the prostitution-related offences and never the extra severe counts.
“Sean Combs sits in jail based on evidence that he paid adult male escorts and entertainers who engaged in consensual sexual activities with his former girlfriends, which he videotaped and later watched with the girlfriends. That is not prostitution, and if it is, his conviction is unconstitutional,” the submitting says.
Combs, some of the influential hip-hop producers of all time, faces being jailed for a number of years after his conviction on the prostitution-related prices.
However he was cleared of the extra severe prices that might have put him in jail for all times – and the decision was hailed a “victory” by his workforce.
Instantly after he was acquitted of these prices, his attorneys requested for his launch on bond. The request was denied by Choose Arun Subramanian, who heard the trial, and stated Combs on the time had not met the burden of displaying by clear and convincing proof a “lack of danger to any person or the community”.
