Diddy won’t be house for the vacations.
Or any days after that within the close to future, both.
On Friday afternoon, a New York federal choose denied the rapper’s request to be launched on bail… stating on document that “by clear and convincing proof” the mogul is doubtlessly harmful and “that no situation or mixture of circumstances will moderately guarantee the security of the neighborhood.”
This marked the fourth time Diddy has made a bail request — and the fourth time it was denied.
As reported by quite a lot of shops on November 27, Choose Arun Subramanian determined in court docket “there’s compelling proof of Combs’s propensity for violence,” together with video obtained by CNN from the 2016 Intercontinental Lodge incident with then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
This video, which we’ve detailed on The Hollywood Gossip, options Diddy kicking and assaulting Cassie.
Diddy’s authorized group tried to argue that the footage had been edited (regardless of Diddy having beforehand apologized for the horrible act), however the choose merely stated there’s “clearly violence even within the model of the footage submitted by Combs.”
Together with the potential for violence, Diddy was only recently accused of witness tampering from jail.
Prosecutors argued on Friday that Combs’ try to affect witnesses whereas behind bars (through telephone calls and threats) “constitutes obstruction” of his prison case.
Additionally they referred to as out the musician’s’ “efforts to affect the jury pool” via a social media marketing campaign organized by his children.
Again on November 8, Diddy formally requested to be launched from Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle, claiming that he needs to be allowed to arrange for his Might 2025 trial exterior of jail because of modified circumstances and new proof.
Diddy’s attorneys proposed a “way more strong” $50 million bail bundle within the submitting with stipulations together with full-time safety monitoring, house detention and restrictions on his skill to contact anybody exterior of his authorized group.
As you probably know by now, Diddy was arrested in September on costs of intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
In a subsequent federal indictment, the general public realized about grotesque particulars of alleged freak-off events that included intercourse staff, medication, threats of violence and different methods through which Diddy reportedly abused and assaulted a cadre of ladies.
By way of his fourth bail request, the rapper proposed house confinement in his three-bedroom Higher East Aspect condo, one thing the choose merely was not keen to grant, saying in response:
“Given the character of the allegations on this case and the data supplied by the federal government, the Court docket doubts the sufficiency of any circumstances that place belief in Combs and people in his make use of — like a personal safety element — to comply with these circumstances.”
In his choice, Subramanian cited “proof supporting a critical threat of witness tampering,” together with Combs’ calls and texts with witnesses, and his flouting of jailhouse guidelines, like utilizing the telephone entry codes of different inmates at MDC-Brooklyn.