Judge Arun Subramanian denied Sean « Diddy » Combs’ demands for new trial and acquittal. The rapper will be sentenced for transportation to engage in prostitution on Oct. 3.
Judge Arun Subramanian rejected Sean « Diddy » Combs’ request for a new trial and the rapper’s demand for an acquittal days before his scheduled sentencing.
Subramanian said the prosecution provided « overwhelming evidence » of Diddy’s guilt on the charges of transportation to engage in prostitution.
« The government proved its case many times over », the federal judge wrote in his opinion obtained by Fox News Digital. « That by itself might be enough to dispose of Combs’s challenge. But the other factors don’t do much to help Combs either. »
The rapper’s legal team had argued the sex trafficking and racketeering evidence could have prejudiced the jury. Judge Subramanian also rejected the « spillover prejudice » argument, pointing to the split verdict. « It weighs heavily that the jury declined to convict him on any of the counts related to that conduct », Subramanian wrote. « Had the prejudice indeed been so great, one would expect a jury to convict on the most relevant counts before it could spill over and infect the others. »
A jury convicted Diddy on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution on July 2.
