Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ recordsdata enchantment to get out of NYC jail earlier than intercourse trafficking trial

Sean “Diddy” Combs has appealed a Manhattan decide’s no-bail ruling, arguing he needs to be free of jail forward of his intercourse trafficking trial as a result of the prosecutors’ push to maintain him behind bars is “based mostly on hypothesis.”

The disgraced hip hop mogul’s legal professionals filed the transient with the US Courtroom of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday because the Dangerous Boys Data founder has languished in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention since he was arrested final month on bombshell federal prices.

The Manhattan US Legal professional’s workplace efficiently argued to a decide that Combs, 54, was a “serial abuser and serial obstructer” who may intimidate witnesses and even flee earlier than his trial.

However protection lawyer Alexandra Shapiro claimed the “authorities’s arguments in regards to the threat of obstruction had been based mostly on hypothesis, resting primarily on untested allegations about communications with witnesses in civil instances and communications initiated by supposed witnesses and never Mr. Combs.”

“The sensationalism surrounding his arrest has distorted the bail evaluation: Mr. Combs was not launched pending trial, despite the fact that he provided to adjust to restrictive situations that will have prevented any conceivable threat of flight or hazard,” Shapiro additionally wrote in Tuesday’s authorized transient.

Combs’ camp failed to steer a decide final month that residence detention, digital monitoring and different situations on $50 million bail had been sufficient to maintain Combs out of the dingy jail.

“He traveled to New York to give up as a result of he knew he was going to be indicted,” his authorized staff wrote. “He took extraordinary steps to display that he meant to face and contest the costs, not flee.”

“He offered a bail bundle that will plainly cease him from posing a hazard to anybody or contacting any witnesses.”

Combs pleaded not responsible to prices of racketeering and intercourse trafficking. He’s strongly denied any wrongdoing.

The worldwide superstar is accused of crafting disturbing orgies he dubbed “Freak Offs,” during which ladies could be drawn into his orbit, given medicine and compelled into marathon intercourse classes with male prostitutes, the feds stated.