Sean “Diddy” Combs will remain in jail while he awaits sentencing for his conviction on two counts of prostitution-related offenses, a judge decided Wednesday evening.
Hours earlier, jurors in Combs’s federal criminal trial found the hip-hop mogul guilty on two of the five counts filed against him, acquitting him of the other three.
The 12-member panel acquitted Combs of racketeering and sex trafficking, the most serious charges, but found him guilty of prostitution-related offenses.
The 55-year-old, who could have been sentenced to life in prison had he been convicted of racketeering or sex trafficking, now faces a maximum of 20 years in prison. At a bail hearing scheduled for 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Judge Arun Subramanian rejected a request from Combs’s attorneys that he be released on a $1 million bond while he awaits sentencing, citing, in part, the defense’s own testimony in the trial.
“At trial, the defense conceded the defendant’s violence in his personal relationships,” he said, adding that the defense had failed to prove that Combs poses “no danger to any person.”
The jury spent more than 12 hours across three days deliberating the case. On Tuesday afternoon, the panel said that it had come to an agreement on counts two, three, four and five — sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution — but was unable to reach a verdict on count one: racketeering conspiracy.
An hour into its deliberations Wednesday, the jury sent a note telling the judge that it had reached a verdict on all five counts.
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