Three months after being convicted of two crimes, Sean Com combs, known as Puff Daddy or Diddy, already has its sentence. The rapper and businessman will have to spend four years in prison and pay $ 500,000, the maximum, after a long seven -week trial that ended in July. A sentence that is exemplary, since, according to Judge Arun Subramanian, the court “has no certainty” that, if he were released, “he would not commit these crimes again.” “A considerable penalty must be imposed to send a message to both aggressors and victims that abuse against women is punished with true responsibility.”
The date to know the sentence was set, and so it has been maintained. Combs, 55 years old and present in the room during the sentence (as well as his mother and six of his children), the two of transport to exercise prostitution (the mildest, who supposed up to 10 years in jail each), two other positions for sexual trafficking and one for leading a criminal organization. The latter was the most serious, and could even suppose the life imprisonment for the rapper. However, it was also the most complex to prove, and the jury was not in a position to do so. Even so, the judge has affirmed that he had taken them into account for his sentence, as it has been clear in it.
“I have no one to blame anymore. The musician apologized to his victims, especially his ex -girlfriend and main witness, Casandra Ventura.
“I ask your lordship to be a father again. I ask your honor to be a child again. I ask your honor to be a leader in my community. I ask your honor to receive the opportunity to receive the help that I need so much to become a better person, because I do not want to disappoint God, I do not want to disappoint my family,” Diddy said in a speech of 12 minutes. Although he acknowledged understanding the severity of the crimes of which he has declared himself guilty (“I assume all responsibility”), the defendant still showed his confidence in a possible acquittal, that he would take advantage, according to his lawyers, to move to live in Florida, along with his mother, and continue to be “a community leader.”
The description made of combs his lawyers did not soften the Judge Subramanian, for whom the crimes for which he was convicted constitute “serious crimes that caused irreparable damage to two women.” The magistrate rejected the idea that Comong was an occasional consumer of prostitution services. “You were not a simple client. It was more than that, although your currency was the satisfaction of your sexual desires instead of money,” he said.
The Prosecutor’s Office demanded that ComBs spend 135 months in jail, that is, more than 11 years, but being realistic they calculated that the maximum penalty could range between 51 and 63 months in prison (between four and five years), while lawyers asked for 14 months, but a maximum of between 21 and 27 months. This has been all overlooked in Friday’s view, where they have repeated their arguments again. However, Judge Subramanian has made it clear that the recommended sentence was between 70 and 87 months (between six and seven years), and that he did not see reasons for his decision to deviate much from it.
Therefore, with this judgment issued by Subramanian, in charge of the case, the Prosecutor’s Office and the victims may feel relieved after the coup received in July after that warm condemns for only a couple of crimes. Now, the judge shows that he believes that these were serious and that Combs must remain substantial in jail. The protests of their lawyers have served little and the many claims have been imprisoned for a year, since
The judge explained that to issue a sentence he has weighted several issues. Among them, that the and of those who were not found guilty were to take into account. The defense of combs has complained about it, while the Prosecutor’s Office has defended it, stating that this “is not a simple case of transport of people” and that there are aggravating factors such as “an indisputable violence.” In addition, the rapper’s defense has complained that the judge does not take into account that combs has accepted his responsibility, and have tried to paint him as a model prisoner who has even given his classmates class; Until his six children have spoken to the judge, ensuring that he was “completely transformed.” But the judge has been firm, and has assured combs that “although he has expressed regrets for some things” he has not done so for the sentences he faces.
Those words came in reference to the same Thursday the musician sent a letter to the judge begging him clemency, asking for forgiveness for “the pain caused to others” for his behavior. “I lost my way. I lost myself in my way. I lost myself in drugs and excess. My fall had its origin in my selfishness. I have felt humiliated and destroyed to the depths of my being. The prison is designed to break you mentally, physically and spiritually. During the last year, there have been many occasions in which I wanted He was reborn a new version of myself. He also claimed that “never” will commit a crime again. Until this week the defense has tried to ask for a null trial and start a new one, something that the Court has denied it.
The case is lengthened two years, since November 2023. Since then, combs has been from men and women of all ages and from all parts of the United States who accuse him of: approaching them for their sympathy and aura of fame, promising them promotions and labor and personal improvements, and then, often after drugs, abuse them, being the victims conscious or unconscious. Many of them report coercion, abuse and verbal or physical violence by the rapper. And there are more than a hundred.
But in this case, which was seen by May and July in the Court of New York, combs was tried especially from two cases: that of a woman whose name has not been known and especially that of her already ex -partner, but intermittent girlfriend for almost a decade, Casandra Ventura. Artist known as Cassie, the woman reported vexations, violations, threats and all kinds of physical, psychological and sexual abuse by Combs. Despite the dripping of demands of the previous months, Ventura – who appeared nine months pregnant, and gave birth just a few days after his statement – of the popular rapper before the judge, the jury and public opinion.
In any case, this is only the first part of what can come. There are dozens of complaints against combs, with several draft lawyers preparing to go to trial against the tycoon. Last March, and a grand jury conducted an investigation into him for months, which led to his arrest for the cases of which he ended up being tried a few months ago. However, it is no longer going back, and chapters are still written in the Sean Com combs.
