Sean “Diddy” Combs will likely be sentenced on October 3 for his conviction on prostitution-related fees, following a break up verdict that noticed him acquitted for crimes that carried extra severe punishment.
The music mogul was discovered not responsible of sweeping racketeering and intercourse trafficking fees after the marathon trial wherein he was accused of harrowing abuse.
But the jury discovered him responsible of two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution, every of which carries a most sentence of 10 years in jail.
It is unlikely the decide will impose the utmost punishment.
Prosecutors have stated in courtroom filings that based mostly on federal sentencing pointers, a spread of 51 to 63 months imprisonment probably could be acceptable — however they may additionally ask for an extended punishment.
His protection, additionally deciphering federal sentencing pointers, has indicated they plan to suggest lighter sentencing of 21 to 27 months.
Combs, 55, has been incarcerated since September 2024 at a infamous Brooklyn jail, and the entire time he has already spent behind bars will rely in direction of his final sentence.
The jury delivered its dramatic verdict on July 2 following simply 13 hours of deliberation that got here after eight weeks of intense testimony and arguments.
Over the two-month proceedings prosecutors accused Combs of being the boss of a decades-long felony enterprise, directing loyal workers and bodyguards to commit myriad offenses at his behest.
But Combs was acquitted of that accusation of racketeering, in addition to two counts associated to intercourse trafficking girls with whom he was in long-term relationships.
That acquittal led his jubilant protection workforce to suggest the producer and entrepreneur be launched on bail, a request Judge Arun Subramanian denied.
Subramanian cited Combs’s confessed historical past of home violence within the choice — a protection that proved very important within the artist’s acquittal on key fees, however got here with a value.
Still, the counts on which Combs was convicted are considerably much less extreme than racketeering and intercourse trafficking, as a responsible verdict on these fees might have despatched him to jail for all times.
In figuring out sentencing, the decide will think about arguments from each side.
The authorities will search an extended sentence based mostly on Combs’s documented violence in addition to drug use, in addition to committing situations of the violations for which he was convicted whereas he knew he was beneath investigation by federal brokers.
Combs’s protection has argued that Combs deserves a lighter sentence on condition that he was utilizing prostitution providers, somewhat than turning a revenue by employed intercourse.
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