Sean “Diddy” Combs has dropped his attraction to be launched on bail, based on court docket paperwork filed on Friday (Dec. 13). The voluntary dismissal means the hip-hop mogul will stay behind bars on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn till the beginning of his legal trial in Might.
“Mr. Combs doesn’t search to attraction the district court docket’s denial of his renewed movement and hereby strikes to voluntarily dismiss the attraction,” reads the doc filed by his attorneys.
The submitting comes greater than two weeks after a Manhattan federal choose turned down Combs’ request to be launched on bail forward of trial, arguing there was “compelling proof of Combs’s propensity for violence” in addition to proof that he poses “a critical danger of witness tampering.” Combs’ attorneys had argued that the hip-hop star could possibly be launched on a $50 million bond and be confined to deal with arrest with “near-total” restrictions. In response, prosecutors alleged that Combs had been trying to “subvert the integrity” of the case from jail and that he would proceed to take action if launched.
Amongst different arguments in opposition to Combs’ launch, the choose within the case cited proof that the rapper had “initiated and had unexplained communication” with a witness who had been known as to testify earlier than the grand jury and had seemingly violated jail guidelines since his September indictment.
Combs is charged with working a wide-ranging legal enterprise with the objective of satisfying his want for “sexual gratification.” Allegations embrace that Combs held “freak off” events throughout which he and different members would drug victims and coerce them into having intercourse.
Combs’ trial is at present slated to start on Might 5.
