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Just three months after he was convicted of two prostitution-related charges, Sean “Diddy” Combs is due to be sentenced Friday, October 3rd.
Federal prosecutors have sought comb to be sentenced to at least 11 years and three months for two transports to engage in prostitution convicted in July.
A lawyer for Combs urged Judge Arun Subramanian to sentence the 55-year-old former hip-hop mogul to prison within 14 months.
Former federal prosecutor Neema Ramani believes Combs, who was acquitted in the eight-week trial of more serious charges of sex trafficking and assault conspiracy, will likely be sentenced to between four and five years.
“I don’t think he’s got the 11 years that the government recommends,” he told people. “It’s more than the legal maximum number of prostitution.”
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Each crime related to prostitution has sentenced a maximum sentence of 10 years, Rahmani added that the probation department recommended it in prisons for five to seven years.
“If the judge had been very leaning, he would have released him on bail after the verdict,” he adds. “The fact that he was detained despite being acquitted of more severe assaults and sex trafficking leads him to believe he will impose a sentence, splitting baby-type sentences rather than the government wants.
Ramani says the judge can consider “other related acts” when making his decision.
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“We’re talking about medicine,” he says. “We’re talking about violence. Despite running a criminal enterprise and being acquitted of forcing these women to have sex through coercion, there’s been a lot of bad evidence about violence and drug use. So I think the judges will deal with this more than a simple prosecution case.”
Comb was not guilty and denied a new trial on Tuesday, September 30th.
“The government has proven the case many times, and in itself may be sufficient to dispose of Combs’ challenge,” Subramanian wrote in court documents obtained by people.
In a letter ahead of the verdict, Combs’ ex-Cassandra “Cathy” Ventura allegedly abused her during a decade-long relationship during the trial, asking the judge to consider “the many lives Sean Combs covered in his abuse and control.”