Judge to sentence Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs today

Sean “Diddy” Combs volition beryllium sentenced Friday for his condemnation connected 2 prostitution-related counts, crimes prosecutors accidental merit much than a decennary down bars arsenic the euphony mogul seeks “mercy” and a swift release.

Following 2 months of often searing grounds and arguments successful the New York national case, jurors successful July rejected the astir superior charges of enactment trafficking and racketeering, sparing the 55-year-old the imaginable of beingness successful prison.

But the hip-hop innovator who was erstwhile the toast of entertainment’s elite could inactive service important jailhouse time.

The 2 prostitution-related counts each transportation a maximum punishment of a decennary successful prison.

Prosecutors are urging Judge Arun Subramanian to condemnation Combs to astatine slightest 11 years, calling him “unrepentant” and a nationalist threat.

Combs’s lawyers meantime person asked that the justice assistance him 14 months, which would efficaciously beryllium clip served.

Ahead of his decision, Subramanian is weighing materials including unfortunate interaction statements. At slightest 1 witness, a erstwhile adjunct who testified nether the sanction Mia, is expected to work her connection successful court.

The justice besides has notation letters supporting Combs — successful summation to a lengthy plea for leniency from the creator himself.

Combs is besides expected to talk straight to the judge, and the missive submitted precocious Thursday offered a preview.

He apologized for the appalling grounds of unit helium committed and told Subramanian helium was “scared to death” to beryllium distant from his family, vowing helium “will ne'er perpetrate a transgression again.”

Judges indispensable see national sentencing guidelines, but yet person wide discretion successful determining punishment.

Combs’s erstwhile woman Casandra Ventura successful a missive asked the justice to see “the galore lives that Sean Combs has upended with his maltreatment and control.”

Ventura, the 39-year-old vocalist known arsenic Cassie, testified for days portion heavy pregnant.

She described successful wrenching item physical, affectional and intersexual maltreatment she suffered portion successful a much than decade-long narration with Combs.

Ventura and different woman, identified arsenic Jane, said they were coerced into performing alleged “freak-offs”: intersexual marathons with hired men that Combs directed and sometimes filmed.

“The full courtroom watched existent footage of Combs kicking and beating maine arsenic I tried to tally distant from a freak disconnected successful 2016,” Ventura wrote.

“People watched this footage dozens of times, seeing my assemblage thrown to the ground, my hands implicit my head, curled into a fetal presumption to shield maine from the worst blows,” she said, noting she has nightmares and flashbacks “on a regular, mundane basis.”

Ventura said she and her household had near the New York country for fearfulness of “retribution” from Combs if helium is released.

– ‘Shattered’ bequest –

The defence didn’t contradict Combs’s intersexual enactment — prosecutors presented copious video and substance connection grounds — but insisted it was consensual.

They besides didn’t contradict Combs’s years of unit against some romanticist partners arsenic good arsenic employees — but they said it didn’t conscionable the ineligible threshold for the sedate charges helium faced.

Jurors took their side.

In her letter, Ventura asked the justice for a determination that “reflects the spot it took for victims of Sean Combs to travel forward.”

The condemnation connected lesser if inactive superior counts stemmed from a national statute that makes it amerciable to transport radical crossed authorities lines for prostitution.

The defence has sought to minimize those offenses, including trying and failing to person the condemnation tossed.

They accidental the crimes merit nary much than 14 months successful prison.

Combs has been incarcerated successful Brooklyn for much than a year, truthful specified a punishment would spot him released earlier the extremity of this year.

He said his clip successful situation has near him “reborn.”

“I person been humbled and breached to my core,” said Combs.

His lawyers importune helium has suffered capable and that his bequest is “shattered.”

No substance the determination connected Friday, determination is ever the imaginable of a statesmanlike pardon: radical successful Combs’s ellipse person reportedly approached the White House seeking clemency.

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