Sean “Diddy” Combs has dropped his enchantment 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 Center in Brooklyn till the beginning of his legal trial in May.
“Mr. Combs doesn’t search to enchantment the district court docket’s denial of his renewed movement and hereby strikes to voluntarily dismiss the enchantment,” reads the doc filed by his attorneys.
The submitting comes greater than two weeks after a Manhattan federal decide 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 severe danger of witness tampering.” Combs’ attorneys had argued that the hip-hop star might be launched on a $50 million bond and be confined to accommodate arrest with “near-total” restrictions. In response, prosecutors alleged that Combs had been making an attempt to “subvert the integrity” of the case from jail and that he would proceed to take action if launched.
Among different arguments towards Combs’ launch, the decide 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 possible violated jail guidelines since his September indictment.
Combs is charged with working a wide-ranging legal enterprise with the aim of satisfying his want for “sexual gratification.” Allegations embody that Combs held “freak off” events throughout which he and different contributors would drug victims and coerce them into having intercourse.
Combs’ trial is at the moment slated to start on May 5.
