New York:
A choose denied the rapper referred to as “Diddy” bail on Wednesday, in line with a court docket submitting, after he was charged with intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
Judges had already denied bail twice for the rapper — actual identify Sean Combs — and prosecutors alleged in opposing the third bid that the rapper and producer has contacted witnesses and used unauthorized communications platforms whereas incarcerated.
“For the next causes, Combs’s movement is DENIED — no situation or mixture of situations will fairly guarantee the security of the group,” federal choose Arun Subramanian mentioned in an order.
Arun Subramanian additionally denied Combs’s utility to be launched from detention with the intention to put together his protection.
“Combs has not carried his burden of demonstrating that launch from detention is critical for trial-preparation functions,” the choose wrote.
Federal prosecutors allege that Combs, 55, sexually abused ladies and coerced them into drug-fueled intercourse events utilizing threats and violence.
He has pleaded not responsible to all costs, and his prison trial is at present slated to start on Could 5, 2025.
Wednesday’s ruling follows a court docket look by Sean Combs on the finish of final week.
Outdoors the Manhattan courthouse, bystanders shouted at Combs’s mom Janice Combs, “Your son is a predator.” Different members of the family have been seen outdoors the listening to.
Sean Combs’s attorneys argued {that a} defendant in one other distinguished federal intercourse trafficking case, former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries, acquired bail which ought to apply to their shopper.
“The character and circumstances of the offenses are considerably completely different,” prosecutors wrote to the court docket on Friday.
“There are not any allegations that Jeffries dedicated non-trafficking-related violent acts or that he used firearms through the charged interval. The indictment towards Combs alleges each.
“With respect to the charged offenses, Jeffries doesn’t embody a racketeering offense. In contrast, Combs is charged with main a racketeering enterprise.”
Prosecutors have beforehand indicated there may be nonetheless extra proof to discover and that extra costs could possibly be added to the indictment towards Combs.
Public allegations have been constructing towards the Grammy winner since late final yr, when singer Cassie, whose actual identify is Casandra Ventura, alleged Combs subjected her to greater than a decade of coercion by bodily pressure and medicines in addition to a 2018 rape.
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