Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asks for bail, citing changed circumstances and new evidence

NEW YORK – Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances along with new evidence mean the hip-hop mogul will be allowed to prepare for his May trial from outside jail. Permission should be given.

Combs’ lawyers filed the request in Manhattan federal court, where two judges have rejected his previous requests for bail since his arrest in September on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.

He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with the help of a network of associates and employees, while silencing his victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings. Got it done.

He is awaiting trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn on May 5.

In their new court filing, Combs’ lawyers say they are proposing a “much stronger” bail package, which would put the entertainer under strict round-the-clock security monitoring and the ability to contact anyone except his lawyers, almost completely Will be subject to restrictions. But the amount of money they attached to the package remains the same $50 million as they had previously proposed.

They also cite new evidence that they say “makes it clear that the government’s case is weak.” That evidence, lawyers said, refutes the government’s claim that a March 2016 video of Combs physically attacking his then-girlfriend was of a forceful “freak” during a sexually motivated incident described in the indictment against Combs. It happened during.

He wrote that the encounter was “a minute-long glimpse of a complex but decade-long consensual relationship” between Combs and his then-girlfriend.

Lawyers argued that the prison conditions Combs faces at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn violate his constitutional rights to participate in his own defense.

A spokesman for prosecutors declined to comment.

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