New York (AP)-Sean Didi Kums fell on his knees and prayed in the courtroom after his righteousness on Wednesday for sex trafficking and the lesions that could have put a famous hip-hop characters behind the bars for life. The rapper was convicted of less crimes related to prostitution and the judge was forbidden by the judge while he was waiting for the verdict.
The mixed result was crowned with legal Odysseals, shattering the image of “Puff Daddy” that was shattered by “Puff Daddy” and came out of his career as an award -winning artist, fashion manager, fashion businessman, brand ambassador and reality TV star.
Combs, convicted of two charges of crime – stands to engage in prostitution – which carries a 10 -year prison sentence. But the jury cleansed him of the charges that could put him behind bars for life.
He was convicted of raising people all over the country, including his friends and male sex workers, to engage in sexual confrontations and a felony for a federal law.
A prison charge is punished for up to 10 years, but the compressors lawyers said that under the instructions of issuing federal rulings, he is likely to face about two years in prison. Prosecutors, who were martyred, said the violence of compass and other factors, that the guidelines will call for at least four to five years. He was imprisoned since his arrest in September, and he has already served nine months behind bars.
In a victory for mothers, the jury was acquitted of eight men and four women of blackmail and the charge of sex trafficking related to allegations that he used his money, strength and frightening physical strength to manipulate his friends to hundreds of drug -embroidered sex marathon with men.
The Defense team argued that the women were ready for the participants and that any of his violence justified the intensity of the charges.
Mark Agunefilo, a COMBS lawyer, requested that his client be released immediately pending the verdict on the verdict, saying that the emergence had changed the calculation and integration account on whether he needed a contract. Prosecutors opposed the release request.
Judge Aaron Supramanan denied this, saying that Compass – at the present time – has not committed to the burden of appearing through clear and convincing evidence that “there is no danger to anyone or society.”
Combs, 55, Stoic sat his hands on his lap, where he heard the bond decision.
There is no date yet to issue the verdict, when the judge decides the Koms penalty to condemn prostitution.
The ruling follows weeks of horrific certificate
Federal officials participating in the issue responded to the result by noting that sex crimes “all exist in many aspects of our society.”
The American lawyer in Manhattan Jay Clayton and Riki J. Patel, who heads the Federal Security Office in New York, in a statement, “New York residents and all Americans want to stop this scourge and bring the perpetrators to justice.”
Jurists traded for 13 hours over a period of three days before announcing their ruling. This came after they said late on Tuesday that they had decided four charges, but they were stuck in blackmail. At this point, the judge told them to continue trading and maintaining the partial ruling under the winding.
Coms did not witness in his trial, which included 34 witnesses as well as a video of the rapper who attacks his ex -girlfriend, Cassi, singer R & B, born Cassandra Ventura.
“By applying for her experience, Cassi left an indelible sign of both the entertainment and battle for justice,” her lawyer, Douglas Wigdour, said in a statement after the verdict.
Later, the judge asked in a message to deny Koms on bail, saying: “Mrs. Ventura believes that Mr. Combs is likely to pose a threat to the victims who witnessed in this case, including the same, as well as society.”
Cassie has seen four days about her 11 -year -old troubled relationship with Combs, which started after her recording with the Bad Boy Record brand.
Kassi said that compressors became obsessed with the Sufis confrontations, which arranged with the help of his employees, which included sex workers and abundant amounts of children’s oil. During sexual events, called “Freak -fs” or “Nights Hotel”, COMBS was asking Cassie to do things with other men and found insulting.
When things did not go on the Comles road, he was hitting it.
The jury has repeatedly told the jury that it did not want to have sex with a “gene” pseudonym.
I told him: “I am not an animal. I need a break.” However, she said she felt “obligated” to comply with his demands, partly because he paid her rent.
AP is usually not called people who say they have been sexually abused unless they publicly advance, as Cassie did.
Defense invitation is the issue of invasion of privacy
The most famous rapper Kid Kody said that Compass stormed his house in late 2011 after they learned that he and Kassi were returning to. After his car was fire a few weeks later, Kodi – whose real name Scott Meskoudi said he knew that Compos “had something to do.” Created by Ambassyat.
The Coms defense team admitted that it could be violent but he argued that the prosecutors were intrusive in his personal life. In his closing comments to the jury, Agnifilo said it was not illegal to make a “homemade porn” with his friends.
Rap singer, businessman and criminal defendant
Combs was in the midst of hip -hop battles in the West Coast in the East Coast in the 1990s, and he became one of the most hip -hop producers and executives in the past three decades, where he developed his interests with the Shun John fashion label, Ciroc Vodka, a cable TV, film and television studio.
In 2001, Combs was in the middle of one of the largest hip -hop experiences of its time, which stems from the launch of the night club in Manhattan, three people were wounded in 1999.com was acquitted of the charges that he took an illegal weapon in the club and tried to bribe his driver to succeed autumn.
He recovered his career quickly.
The Koms reputation may have suffered irreversible damage, despite a rod suit on November 2023, claiming years of sexual and physical assault. The next day settled for 20 million dollars, but more lawsuits followed by other women and men.
Most of them are still hanging.
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Associated Press Press Jennifer Bilz and Julie Walker contributed to this report.