The rapper and music producer was arrested on September 16. In pretrial detention, he awaits trial on charges including sex trafficking, assault and extortion.
The rapper and producer was arrested on September 16 in the United States Sean “Diddy” Combs He is awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking, assault and extortion. After pleading not guilty, Diddy is being held in protective custody at a detention center in New York.
Combs’ defense appealed a federal judge’s decision to hold him in the detention center until his trial, asking that he be allowed to serve house arrest in Miami on $50 million bail. The first appeal was rejected and now the lawyers have announced that they will appeal for a second time.
In the initial appeal, the lawyers had complained of “inadequate conditions for preventive detention” at the place, the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), in Brooklyn, New York, which has been notorious for having faced a series of problems in recent years. and read more about the MDC situation.
In addition to bail, they also proposed that Diddy could be monitored 24 hours a day at his mansion by a private security force. According to information from The New York Times, the defense team further argued that the 54-year-old rapper’s “extraordinary” decision to fly to New York before his arrest would be evidence of his “trustworthiness and lack of flight risk.”
Prosecutors, however, countered that Diddy still poses a threat to his victims and witnesses, as well as citing “problems [de controle] of anger and substance abuse” by the rapper.
According to American magazine Peoplesources had previously said that Combs was under observation as a suicide prevention measure, as the rapper was “in shock” and his mental state was unclear. The publication later reported that Diddy is no longer in such condition.
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