Federal prosecutors requested an appeals courtroom to uphold a choose’s determination to disclaim Sean “Diddy” Combs bail in a submitting on Wednesday (October 16). The prosecution mentioned Decide Andrew Carter’s ruling was supported by “clear and convincing proof” of why Diddy should stay in jail.
“In arguing that proof of obstruction was ‘skinny’ and that the Authorities ‘offered no foundation to imagine’ that Combs tampered with witnesses, Combs primarily quibbles with the power of the Authorities’s proof that Combs made inappropriate contact with Authorities witnesses,” prosecutors wrote of their opposition. “However Combs ignores altogether the intense and substantial allegations of obstruction, bribery and witness tampering charged within the Indictment as half Combs’ sample of racketeering exercise that amply supported Decide Carter’s dedication … Combs’ longstanding and complex strategies of obstructing justice and silencing witnesses greater than established his dangerousness.”
Prosecutors mentioned they uncovered how Diddy engaged “methodical and complex means to silence and intimidate witnesses” of their investigation. They insisted Decide Carter appropriately decided Diddy was a hazard to the neighborhood and a risk to witnesses.
“Combs usually used loyal intermediaries to perform his goals and wielded violence and blackmail, in addition to his substantial wealth and affect relative to his victims and staff, to attain compliance,” prosecutors contended. “Decide Carter subsequently rightly concluded that the proposed circumstances had been insufficient as a result of they’d nonetheless allow Combs to ‘impede justice and intimidate witnesses’ by way of ‘staff and different people’ and ‘even coded messages.’”
They continued, “[Diddy] asserts that there was ‘not a shred of proof’ that Combs used coded messages … As just one instance, nevertheless, Combs tried to make sure a sufferer’s silence about her ‘sexual trauma’ by telling her that he ‘wanted’ her and that if she ‘wanted’ Combs too, she ‘ain’t bought fear about nothing else,’ alluding to a promise of monetary safety in trade for loyalty. Whereas Combs asserts that this incident didn’t contain an middleman, Combs then texted an worker to make sure that his monetary advisor saved paying the sufferer’s hire. The proof subsequently supported the conclusion that even when confined to his residence, Combs has the means and the affect to evade even seemingly restrictive bail circumstances.”
Decide Carter was the second choose to disclaim Diddy bail after the Hip-Hop mogul was arrested on racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking expenses. A 3rd choose rejected Diddy’s request for speedy launch however referred his enchantment to a three-judge panel. The appeals courtroom is scheduled to listen to his argument for bail on November 4.
Diddy stays in custody on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn. His trial is about to start in Might 2025.
