New York:
A choose denied the rapper referred to as “Diddy” bail on Wednesday, based on a courtroom 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 moderately guarantee the security of the neighborhood,” federal choose Arun Subramanian mentioned in an order.
Arun Subramanian additionally denied Combs’s software to be launched from detention with a purpose to put together his protection.
“Combs has not carried his burden of demonstrating that launch from detention is important 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 prices, and his legal trial is at present slated to start on Could 5, 2025.
Wednesday’s ruling follows a courtroom 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 legal professionals argued {that a} defendant in one other distinguished federal intercourse trafficking case, former Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries, obtained bail which ought to apply to their consumer.
“The character and circumstances of the offenses are considerably completely different,” prosecutors wrote to the courtroom 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. Against this, Combs is charged with main a racketeering enterprise.”
Prosecutors have beforehand indicated there’s nonetheless extra proof to discover and that extra prices might 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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