NYC judge denies Sean 'Diddy' Combs' bail request

NEW YORK -- A justice has ruled Sean "Diddy" Combs should not beryllium released connected bail, denying his defence team's petition to spot him connected location confinement successful his New York apartment.

Last week, his defence squad urged the justice to spot Combs connected location confinement successful a three-bedroom New York City flat connected the Upper East Side nether 24/7 monitoring by 3 full-time information professionals.

The video successful the subordinate supra is from a erstwhile report.

Prosecutors argued the hep hop impresario "cannot beryllium trusted" to travel the rules of pretrial release.

The defence said it was proposing conditions "far much restrictive" than Combs faces successful jail, including limiting telephone calls to lawyers, restricting visitors different than lawyers and circumstantial household members, keeping a visitant log and avoiding interaction with witnesses oregon imaginable witnesses.

"If what the authorities is acrophobic of is that Mr. Combs is going to beryllium convulsive toward idiosyncratic there's conscionable zero accidental of that happening," defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo said.

Prosecutors reminded the justice "this is simply a lawsuit astir violence" and argued the conditions projected successful the defence bail bundle fell short.

"At bottom, successful bid for conditions to beryllium capable determination has to beryllium immoderate level of spot that the suspect volition travel them," authoritative Christy Slavik said. "Simply enactment the suspect cannot beryllium trusted."

She besides questioned the efficacy of a squad of backstage information guards paid for by Combs. "There is truly conscionable nary separation for the defendant. You enactment for him. There's conscionable nary mode to spot that immoderate backstage information steadfast could bash what the tribunal requires and guarantee compliance," Slavik said.

Combs has pleaded not blameworthy to racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking and prostitution charges. His attorneys conceded edifice information camera video obtained by CNN depicted "physical conduct" betwixt Combs and his ex-girlfriend Cassie but argued the video should not beryllium utilized to support Combs down bars.

"It's our defence to these charges that this was a toxic extremity of a loving relationship," Agnifilo said.

Federal prosecutors said "it was a spot puzzling" the defence brought up the video due to the fact that Combs does not quality what it shows.

"The suspect admitted it and apologized for it successful a nationalist Instagram post. Shoving, kicking and dragging a pistillate victim," Slavik said.