Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ third bid to be released on bail won’t be decided until next week

Combs’ lawyers pitched having him await proceedings nether around-the-clock surveillance either astatine his mansion connected an land adjacent Miami Beach oregon — aft the justice scoffed astatine that determination — astatine an flat connected Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Their $50 cardinal bail proposal, secured by his Florida home, fundamentally amounts to keeping Combs connected location apprehension alternatively of successful custody astatine the troubled Brooklyn national jailhouse wherever he’s been held for 67 days since his September arrest.

Under their plan, Combs’ lawyers said he’ll beryllium nether near-total restrictions connected his quality to spot oregon interaction anyone but them. But prosecutors argued that nary bail conditions tin mitigate Combs’ “risk of obstruction and dangerousness to others.”

Combs has routinely flouted jailhouse rules portion locked up astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn, prosecutors said, accusing him of attempting to interfere with witnesses and taint the assemblage pool. “Really, this amounts to the suspect paying his mode retired of custody,” Assistant US Attorney Christy Slavik told Subramanian.

Defense lawyer Anthony Ricco countered that the prosecution’s portrayal of Combs arsenic “a lawless idiosyncratic who doesn’t travel instructions” oregon “an out-of-control idiosyncratic who has to beryllium detained” is inaccurate.

Another Combs lawyer, Teny Geragos, added that fixed the strict merchandise conditions they’ve proposed, “it would beryllium intolerable for him not to travel rules.” Combs, 55, has pleaded not blameworthy to charges that helium coerced and abused women for years with assistance from a web of associates and employees portion silencing victims done blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and carnal beatings.

His proceedings is slated to statesman May 5.Two different judges antecedently concluded that the Bad Boy Records laminitis would beryllium a information to the assemblage if helium is freed, and an appeals tribunal justice past period denied Combs’ contiguous merchandise portion a three-judge sheet of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals weighs his bail request.

Friday’s proceeding was the 2nd clip Combs was successful tribunal this week. On Tuesday, a justice blocked prosecutors from utilizing arsenic grounds papers that were seized from his compartment during a jail-wide expanse for contraband and weapons.

As helium entered done a broadside door, Combs waved to relatives including his parent and respective of his children successful the courtroom gallery, tapping his manus to his bosom and blowing kisses astatine them. He past hugged his pb attorney, Marc Agnifilo, earlier sitting astatine the defence table. Combs was not handcuffed oregon shackled and wore a beige jailhouse uniform, occasionally pulling a brace of speechmaking glasses from his pouch arsenic helium peered astatine papers successful beforehand of him.

Prosecutors contend that portion incarcerated the “I’ll Be Missing You” vocalist has orchestrated societal media campaigns aimed astatine influencing imaginable jurors. They allege that helium has besides attempted to leak materials helium believes would assistance his lawsuit and is contacting imaginable witnesses via 3rd parties.“Simply put, the suspect cannot beryllium trusted,” Slavik argued.

In renewing their propulsion for Combs’ release, his lawyers sought to undercut the spot of a imaginable cardinal portion of evidence: a March 2016 video showing him hitting and kicking his then-girlfriend, R&B vocalist Cassie, successful a Los Angeles edifice hallway.

Prosecutors contend the battle happened during a “Freak Off,” an lawsuit successful which they allege Combs utilized his “power and prestige” to induce pistillate victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced intersexual performances with antheral enactment workers.

Combs’ lawyers said successful tribunal papers that recently unearthed grounds refutes that, and that the video, which archetypal aired connected CNN successful May, was “a minutes-long glimpse into a analyzable but decade-long consensual relationship” betwixt Combs and Cassie.

Slavik, responding to defence claims that the signaling was manipulated oregon taken retired of context, said prosecutors don’t person the afloat mentation due to the fact that Combs paid edifice unit $100,000 “to marque the archetypal video spell away.”“This is simply a lawsuit astir violence,” Slavik told Subramanian successful a last plea to support Combs locked up. “The suspect has engaged successful physical, intersexual and affectional maltreatment of his romanticist partners for years. … He’s hit. He’s kicked. He’s dragged.”