Sean “Diddy” Combs is as soon as once more asking to be launched from federal custody forward of his Oct. 3 sentencing — this time arguing that his almost yearlong incarceration is unjust, the regulation was misapplied, and the choose ought to put aside earlier issues about his previous violent conduct.
The movement, filed Tuesday within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York, comes after Decide Arun Subramanian denied Combs’ prior requests for bail following the jury’s break up verdict. Whereas Combs was acquitted of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and a number of different expenses, he was convicted of violating the Mann Act, a regulation that’s not often used.
“The Mann Act (also referred to as the White-Slave Visitors Act of 1910),” based on Cornell Regulation College, “is a federal regulation that criminalizes the transportation of ‘any lady or woman for the aim of prostitution or debauchery, or for another immoral function.’
The choose had beforehand cited Combs’ personal admissions of violence, significantly in his relationship with Cassie Ventura, and an alleged 2024 assault towards one other lady often called “Jane,” as key causes for continued detention.
Now, Combs’ attorneys argue that protecting him behind bars quantities to an unprecedented and inappropriate software of a 114-year-old regulation initially designed to fight human trafficking and compelled prostitution. They are saying Combs is being punished not for coercion or profiteering however for partaking in consensual sexual exercise inside a swinger’s life-style.
“There has actually by no means been a case like this one,” the movement states, arguing that Combs is the one individual in jail for paying grownup male escorts to have interaction along with his long-term girlfriends — exercise the protection claims was consensual and initiated by the ladies themselves.
The authorized crew additionally factors to Combs’ 11-month detention at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle, calling it a harmful and violent setting that federal courts have already condemned as unfit. They argue the power’s circumstances alone justify his launch.
“The requirement of outdoor regulation enforcement companies to make sure security inside the MDC is an admission that critical violence, mayhem and chaos is going on,” the movement says.
Combs is providing a $50 million bond secured by his Miami residence, journey restrictions, digital monitoring, and any circumstances the courtroom might impose to show he’s neither a hazard nor a flight danger.
“This jury gave him his life again, and he won’t squander his second probability at life,” his attorneys wrote.
