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Sean “Diddy” Combs will stay in jail after a choose rejected his latest attempt for release whereas the rapper and music producer awaits trial on costs of intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.
Choose Arun Subramanian denied Combs’ crew’s movement for launch on Wednesday. His determination adopted a two-hour court docket listening to on Friday the place he appeared to discover potential choices and questioned prosecutors’ allegation that Combs continued to impede the continued investigation.
“The Courtroom finds that the federal government has proven by clear and convincing proof that no situation or mixture of situations will moderately guarantee the protection of the group,” the choose wrote in a five-page order.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Combs for remark.
Federal prosecutors argued that Combs couldn’t be trusted on bail as a result of he flouted the foundations of the jail and choose. They mentioned he posed a hazard to ladies and was tampering with witnesses – even whereas in federal custody on the Metropolitan Detention Heart. Prosecutors allege Combs tried to evade legislation enforcement monitoring through the use of a number of methods, together with three-way calling, to contact witnesses. In addition they accused him of violating the choose’s personal order limiting communications and ignored his attorneys’ steerage partly by orchestrating a social media marketing campaign round his birthday to attempt to affect the potential jury pool.
The choose pointed to proof that Combs was not following the jail guidelines – together with the continued use of a messaging service – in his determination. “Underscoring the Courtroom’s concern, regardless of protection counsel’s assurances to the Courtroom on the November 22, 2024 listening to (with Combs in attendance) that Combs stopped utilizing ContactMeASAP as of November 16, 2024, … the federal government signifies that Combs has continued to make use of this service as not too long ago as this previous Sunday, November 24, 2024.”
His attorneys have relentlessly pursued his launch from federal custody, arguing that personal safety would offer extra restrictions on Combs than federal jail. They mentioned Combs wanted to be free to assist put together his protection in opposition to the legal costs and roughly 30 civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse.
His attorneys recognized a three-bedroom residence on Manhattan’s Higher East Aspect the place they argued he can be surrounded by safety 24/7 to observe visits and cellphone calls. Underneath their proposed bail bundle, Combs would additionally publish a $50 million bond. Throughout Friday’s listening to the choose scoffed on the suggestion that Combs may keep at his house in Miami with a ship dock, saying that’s “not going to work.”
The hip-hop mogul was arrested in September and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and prostitution-related costs. He has pleaded not responsible and can go to trial on Might 5.
Combs was beforehand denied bail by two different federal judges who discovered there have been no situations that will guarantee them that he wouldn’t attempt to impede the investigation or be a risk to the group. Combs initially appealed a type of rulings after which requested the appeals court docket to place that on maintain whereas tried once more with Choose Subramanian, who was transferred the case.