Diddy lawyers call for acquittal or retrial on prostitution-related charges

Lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs person called for him to beryllium acquitted of prostitution-related offences, oregon fixed a caller proceedings connected the aforesaid charges.

Combs, 55, was found blameworthy of 2 counts of proscription for engagement successful prostitution astatine the extremity of his high-profile proceedings successful New York earlier this period - for flying girlfriends and antheral enactment workers astir the US and overseas for intersexual encounters referred to arsenic "freak offs".

However, helium was cleared of much superior charges of racketeering, conspiracy and sex-trafficking.

The hip-hop mogul has been successful situation since his apprehension successful September 2024 and is owed to beryllium sentenced successful October.

On Tuesday, his lawyers made a renewed petition for his merchandise connected a $50m bond up of the hearing.

Now, they person filed different question to the court, saying it "should either assistance a judgement of acquittal or, astatine a minimum, a caller trial" connected the prostitution-related offences.

In the caller filing, Combs's defence squad said the US authorities had "painted him arsenic a monster" ever since his arrest, but argued his two-month proceedings showed allegations of a "20-year racketeering endeavor and of enactment trafficking aggregate women... were not supported by credible evidence, and the assemblage rejected them".

They besides accidental that to their knowledge, helium is "the lone person" ever convicted of these charges for the behaviour helium was accused of successful court.

"It is undisputed that helium had nary commercialized motive and that each progressive were adults," the filing states. "The men chose to question and prosecute successful the enactment voluntarily. The verdict confirms the women were not susceptible oregon exploited oregon trafficked oregon sexually assaulted during the freak offs oregon edifice nights."

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They picture the prosecution's grounds connected the counts arsenic "thin astatine best" and accidental the proceedings would person been "totally different" had the rapper lone been charged with the prostitution-related offences and not the much superior counts.

"Sean Combs sits successful jailhouse based connected grounds that helium paid big antheral escorts and entertainers who engaged successful consensual intersexual activities with his erstwhile girlfriends, which helium videotaped and aboriginal watched with the girlfriends. That is not prostitution, and if it is, his condemnation is unconstitutional," the filing says.

Combs, 1 of the astir influential hip-hop producers of each time, faces being jailed for respective years aft his condemnation connected the prostitution-related charges.

But helium was cleared of the much superior charges that could person enactment him successful situation for beingness - and the verdict was hailed a "victory" by his team.

Immediately aft helium was acquitted of those charges, his lawyers asked for his merchandise connected bond. The petition was denied by Judge Arun Subramanian, who heard the trial, and said Combs astatine the clip had not met the load of showing by wide and convincing grounds a "lack of information to immoderate idiosyncratic oregon the community".