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(NewsNation) — A national justice has denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ petition for merchandise from jailhouse arsenic helium awaits sentencing successful October for a prostitution-related conviction.
"Combs fails to fulfill his load to show an entitlement to release," Judge Arun Subramanian wrote successful his Monday ruling.
He wrote that during the trial, the defence conceded Combs' past of unit successful his idiosyncratic relationships.
"This benignant of violence, which happens down closed doors ... is intolerable to constabulary with conditions. On this ground alone, Combs’s exertion is denied," helium wrote.
Combs’ attorneys had filed a bail question past week saying determination are “exceptional circumstances” that warrant his release.
They argued successful their question to Subramanian that Combs is the lone idiosyncratic with a akin condemnation nether the Mann Act to stay incarcerated.
“In the past of the statute, the Mann Act has ne'er been applied to facts akin to these to prosecute oregon incarcerate immoderate different person,” they wrote. “In immoderate somewhat likewise situated cases to this one, each the defendants were released pending sentencing.”
A assemblage convicted Combs on 2 counts of proscription to prosecute successful prostitution nether the Mann Act, which has a maximum condemnation of 10 years successful prison. He was acquitted of the much superior charges of racketeering and enactment trafficking.
Subramanian denied Combs’ archetypal petition to beryllium released connected enslaved aft the divided verdict. He said the applicable instrumentality didn’t let for Combs’ release, saying grounds astatine proceedings showed the euphony producer’s “pattern of violence” toward ex-partners.
His sentencing proceeding is scheduled Oct. 3.
Diddy facing threats of unit wrong Brooklyn jail
Combs is being held astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn.
In the defense's petition for bail, Combs' attorneys stated they "... are alert of ongoing threats of unit and existent unit successful the facility, specified that Mr. Combs’ information is perpetually astatine risk.
In Monday's order, the justice responded that, "... MDC unit has been capable to support him harmless and be to his needs, adjacent during an incidental of threatened unit from an inmate."
Diddy's defence claims ex-girlfriends were 'swingers'
In the bail motion, Combs’ attorneys besides took purpose astatine his ex-girlfriends, who were the ground of the transgression charges.
They said some Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and a unfortunate known nether the pseudonym “Jane” were "swingers" who engaged successful “threesomes” with Combs and initiated interaction with enactment workers.
“This was a lifestyle, 1 that some Ms. Ventura and Jane chose. One they all—as grown adults—had a close to choose,” they said.
Additionally, attorneys argued that Combs should beryllium released due to the fact that the conditions of confinement astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn, wherever helium is presently being held, are unsafe.
The attorneys look to beryllium pulling each lever they tin arsenic they besides filed a motion Wednesday asking Subramanian to acceptable speech a assemblage verdict convicting him connected national prostitution charges oregon to assistance him a caller proceedings connected those charges alone.
Combs’ lawyers utilized galore of the aforesaid arguments arsenic his bail motion, saying the prostitution convictions nether the Mann Act are legally unsupported, constitutionally flawed and inconsistent with longstanding Department of Justice policy.
