Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs seeks bail, citing modified circumstances and new proof

Attorneys for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal courtroom, the place his earlier requests for bail have been rejected by two judges since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking fees.

He has pleaded not responsible to fees that he coerced and abused ladies for years with assist from a community of associates and workers, whereas silencing victims via blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.

He has been awaiting a Might 5 trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.

Of their new courtroom submitting, attorneys for Combs say they’re proposing a “way more sturdy” bail bundle that might topic the entertainer to strict around-the-clock safety monitoring and near-total restrictions on his potential to contact anybody however his attorneys. However the amount of cash they connect to the bundle stays $50 million, as they proposed earlier than.

Additionally they cite new proof that they are saying “makes clear that the federal government’s case is skinny.” That proof, the attorneys mentioned, refutes the federal government’s declare {that a} March 2016 video exhibiting Combs bodily assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred throughout a coerced “freak off,” a sexually pushed occasion described within the indictment in opposition to Combs.

They wrote that the encounter was as an alternative “a minutes-long glimpse into a fancy however decade-long consensual relationship” between Combs and his then-girlfriend.

The attorneys argued that the jail circumstances Combs is experiencing on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn violate his constitutional rights to take part in his protection.

A spokesperson for prosecutors declined to remark.

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