Sean combs will have to wait a little longer to know your conviction. Judge Arun Subramanian, responsible for the musician’s case has also made a decision this Tuesday, July 8 on the sentence: despite the pressures of the lawyers, he will announce it on October 3, as he had announced last week.
When Subramanian set the date of the sentence, the lawyers complained. For them, it was too much that Comps spent another three months in jail, where it has been 10 months. Before his insistence, the judge decided to set a view for this Tuesday to listen to them, both to them and the Prosecutor’s Office. This July 8, he asked the judge in a letter that sets the date for September 22 as late, and has claimed that the parties have met to discuss it and that the Prosecutor’s Office does not oppose it. But, finally, both have reached the agreement to maintain the date of October 3. And Subramanian has accepted.
What they do not agree is in the penalty. Although the crimes for which it has been convicted. The Prosecutor’s Office asks for four and five years in prison (from 51 to 63 months), while the defense expects its client to leave in less than two, or at most two and a half (between 21 and 27). That is, much less of the life imprisonment, which has avoided. As one of the combs spokesmen has told, on his return to the Brooklyn prison (New York) where he has been stopped since last September, several prisoners stood up to applaud him.
Meanwhile, combs, 55, will remain in jail. That was clear, because Subramanian specified it hours later although Puff Daddy’s lawyers insisted that his client achieved probation and could spend the time left to the sentence at his home, the judge refused. Not even with a bail of one million dollars, delivering the passport and undergoing drug tests would allow him to be free, he explained. The Prosecutor’s Office, as well as several victims – among them – had strongly begged him, stating that Comps was even a danger at home, because he could try to communicate with the victims who had denounced him, more than a hundred, as well as pressure them and condition them. For the judge, it is proven that ComBs used violence with the two main victims, Ventura and another woman called Jane, so he should not get out of jail.
Last Wednesday, July 2 and after a long trial of almost two months, the jury decided that combs was guilty of two of the five crimes for which he was being judged, the two less serious: it was to exercise prostitution, but not of those of sexual trafficking or the most serious, that of illegal association, which frees him from the life imprisonment. Even so, his conviction would be about 20 years, at most. But we will have to wait a little longer to know.
Although he faced crimes that could send him to jail for decades, even for the rest of his life, Sean Com combs has come relatively unpunished from the media trial. About the crime of illicit association, also called organized crime, since it was so serious that it could assume life imprisonment; In addition, it is something complicated to demonstrate, because it requires meet a series of very specific requirements. They also declared him innocent, to the surprise of many, of the crime of sex trafficking, although he was guilty of the transport to exercise prostitution.
Although similar, both charges are different in the background. In the crime of sexual trafficking with force, fraud or coercion (thus it is called) the key is in the exploitation of individuals with control and manipulation, and with use of strength, fraud or coercion, as its name says, when it comes to forcing the person to participate in sexual activities. On the other hand, in the other crime, what really matters is transport itself: transfer a person to prostitute it. Therefore, in traffic, the crime is in the fact of forcing the person to the activity; While in transport, everything falls on the fact of having moved it, either between states or outside the country; Here does not mean that there is force or coercion.
In any case, this is only the first of the many judicial chapters that are left to live in Sean Combs. , and it was the first to denounced him (although hours later), but the Prosecutor’s Office saw clear the case from the beginning, to which the one of another anonymous woman called Jane was joined. However, although combs has come relatively victorious from this trial, many more await you. After Cassie, dozens of complaints, around 150, of men and women who accuse him of having abused them. Therefore, there is still a judicial route in the case of Puff Daddy.
