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.
