Diddy’s authorized workforce is doing every thing they’ll to get him out of the slammer. From private statements from family and friends to an apology from Diddy himself, his attorneys are actually pulling out one other card to persuade the decide to let him out.
At at the moment’s sentencing, Protection lawyer Brian Metal revealed {that a} guard on the Brooklyn jail the place Diddy has been detained since his arrest stopped a person with a shank who was making an attempt to get ahold of the mogul. Metal famous that there’s a serious goal on his again at MDC Brooklyn — another excuse why they imagine he must be launched.
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It’s rather a lot for the decide to contemplate and emotional for Diddy, listening to all of this in courtroom as he awaits his destiny. Up to now, Diddy’s youngsters have tearfully requested the decide for mercy. The courtroom additionally confirmed Diddy breaking down in tears through the enjoying of a video about his life at his sentencing listening to in Manhattan federal courtroom.
Prosecutors are gunning for an 11-year sentence for Combs, 55, who was convicted in July of flying individuals throughout state strains for marathon sexual encounters. As we beforehand reported, jurors acquitted him of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking expenses that might have carried a life sentence.
Earlier than sentencing, Diddy despatched a letter to the decide apologizing and pleading for mercy. It learn:
“I need to apologize and say how sincerely sorry I’m for the entire harm and ache that I’ve precipitated others by my conduct,” he wrote. “This has been the toughest 2 years of my life, and I’ve nobody responsible for my present actuality and scenario however myself,” he wrote.
He continued,
“The scene and pictures of me assaulting Cassie play time and again in my head day by day. I actually misplaced my thoughts. I used to be useless unsuitable for placing my arms on the lady that I beloved,” he wrote.
“Jail is designed to interrupt you mentally, bodily and spiritually. Over the previous yr there have been so many instances that I wished to surrender. There have been some days I assumed I’d be higher off useless. The outdated me died in jail and a brand new model of me was reborn. Jail will change you or kill you—I select to stay,” he said.
He concluded,
“I humbly ask you for one more likelihood—one other likelihood to be a greater father, one other likelihood to be a greater son, one other likelihood to be a greater chief in my group, and one other likelihood to stay a greater life. I’m penning this to not achieve any sympathy or pity, this expertise is solely the reality of my existence and has modified my life perpetually and I’ll by no means commit a criminal offense once more,” he stated.
With all of this on the desk, will the decide let him stroll free with circumstances? Keep tuned as we discover out.