{"id":33717,"date":"2025-09-30T13:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/diddy-wants-to-speak-at-his-sentencing-his-lawyers-say-as-prosecutors-recommend-at-least-11-years-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:41:38","slug":"diddy-wants-to-speak-at-his-sentencing-his-lawyers-say-as-prosecutors-recommend-at-least-11-years-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/diddy-wants-to-speak-at-his-sentencing-his-lawyers-say-as-prosecutors-recommend-at-least-11-years-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy wants to speak at his sentencing, his lawyers say as prosecutors recommend at least 11 years prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/670817a6a70318649280f1a7?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Sean Diddy Combs\"\/><figcaption>Sean &quot;Diddy&quot; Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of &quot;The Four: Battle For Stardom&quot; at the CBS Radford Studio Center on May 30, 2018, in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Willy Sanjuan\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of at least 11 years for Sean &quot;Diddy&quot; Combs.<\/li>\n<li>Combs was convicted of prostitution-related counts, but acquitted of more serious charges.<\/li>\n<li>Combs intends to speak at his sentencing, his lawyers revealed Friday night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federal prosecutors want a Manhattan judge to sentence Sean &quot;Diddy&quot; Combs to at least 11 years in prison for his conviction on two prostitution-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>In a court filing on Tuesday, prosecutors said the hip-hop mogul&#039;s &quot;crimes of conviction are serious&quot; and that Combs &quot;engaged in violence and put others in fear.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Combs should be sentenced to no less than 135 months behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A substantial term of imprisonment is also needed in this case because the defendant is unrepentant,&quot; prosecutors wrote in the court filing.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The defendant tries to recast decades of abuse as simply the function of mutually toxic relationships,&quot; prosecutors said. &quot;But there is nothing mutual about a relationship where one holds all the power and the other ends up bloodied and bruised.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>They also blasted Combs&#039; long shot bid to be released at his coming October 3 sentencing with a punishment of time served.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When comparing the actual conduct of defendants who received the sentence Combs requests, it is clear that the unduly lenient sentence sought by Combs would actually <em>create<\/em>, rather than avoid, a sentencing disparity,&quot; prosecutors argued.<\/p>\n<p>Combs was convicted in July of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution \u2014 the so-called Mann Act \u2014 for causing two girlfriends and multiple male escorts to cross state lines to participate in &quot;freak offs,&quot; dayslong sex performances for which the men were paid.<\/p>\n<p>The conviction followed a more than six-week trial where the jury heard about the rapper&#039;s violent side and was shown graphic footage of his drug-fueled sex encounters.<\/p>\n<p>The music tycoon, once worth close to a billion dollars, dodged a possible sentence of life behind bars when the jury acquitted him of the top sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution&#039;s recommended sentence for Combs is just that \u2014 a recommendation. US District Judge Arun Subramanian, who oversaw Combs&#039; trial, will make the final decision.<\/p>\n<p>Each Mann Act conviction carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, though lawyers not involved in Combs&#039; case expect any sentence to be much lower than that.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for Combs made a plea to the judge for leniency in a lengthy pre-sentencing submission filed on September 22.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He has served over a year in one of the most notorious jails in America\u2014yet has made the most of that punishment,&quot; Combs&#039; lawyers wrote. &quot;It is time for Mr. Combs to go home to his family, so he can continue his treatment and try to make the most of the next chapter of his extraordinary life.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A prison sentence of no more than 14 months, his attorneys said, &quot;is the only reasonable sentence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Combs has been behind bars at Brooklyn&#039;s Metropolitan Detention Center since his arrest and indictment more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers added in the court filing that while locked up, Combs launched a six-week business course called &quot;Free Game with Diddy&quot; to &quot;spread his knowledge to his fellow inmates.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The judge did not immediately rule on Combs&#039; request that he be allowed to wear civilian clothes, not a jail uniform, at his sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He wishes to appear before the Court, address Your Honor, and allocute in the most dignified and respectful fashion possible,&quot; they wrote Friday night, tipping their hand on Combs&#039; intention of speaking on his own behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean &quot;Diddy&quot; Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of &quot;The Four: Battle For Stardom&quot; at the CBS Radford Studio Center on May 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. 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