The rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs on Thursday asked Judge Arun Subramanian, who presides over his case for sexual trafficking in a federal court in New York, which annuls the two verdicts in which he was found guilty and that he could cost him up to twenty years in prison, or that a new process is carried out, to which the magistrate has not yet answered.
Combs, 55, made the request at an audience held in order to submit his claim to the Court, attended by relatives of the Hip-Hop tycoon, who last July was found guilty of two transport positions of people to exercise prostitution and innocent found in that of sexual trafficking and conspire for extortion.
The defense of the producer also argued in his claim that the definition of prostitution should be interpreted strictly in relation to the positions of the Mann Law, which applies only to those who participated in sexual acts or benefited economically from them, according to CNN.
The mann law typifies as a crime to transport people beyond the borders of a State for prostitution purposes. The combs lawyers argued that it does not apply to viable behaviors such as yours, which was the subject of this trial.
The Prosecutor’s Office argued not to agree with the definition, but said that even under that interpretation, combs is still responsible for the convictions of the Mann Law because it facilitated the transport of its two brides and their companions for sexual purposes in exchange for money, the chain also indicated.
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The rapper’s lawyers, in prison since September 2024, also told the court that their client was a producer and consumer of amateur pornography and that the “expressive conduct” is protected by the first amendment, to which the Prosecutor’s Office replied that the first amendment is irrelevant for the condemnation of Combs.
Judge Subramanian said after the hearing that he would announce “very soon” his decision or otherwise “we will see everyone back here next Friday”, referring to October 3, day he set for the artist’s conviction.
On September 23, the rapper’s legal team, headed by Marc Agnifilo, also asked the judge for a sentence of no more than fourteen months in prison for his client under the argument that he is in prison since his arrest, so he would have practically complied with the sentence requested by his lawyers.
While waiting for his conviction, the rapper faces a new demand, filed on Wednesday in California for his stylist Dente Nash for sexual assault, violence and threats, which adds to many other similar accusations.
With EFE information.
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