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Except for having ugly sexual habits that helped land him in court docket and finally brought on him to be discovered responsible by a jury of his friends, Diddy has one thing else in widespread with Josh Duggar:
Every has requested a brand new trial as a result of every believes he was screwed over by the authorized system.
The identical week Duggar claimed he was denied a good trial in 2022, Diddy has now gone forward and made the identical allegation.
Lower than one month after the musician was discovered responsible on a pair of federal prices, his authorized group filed a movement requesting to both overturn his convictions … or grant him a brand new trial with restricted proof linked to these prices.
New York Mayor Eric Adams presents Sean “Diddy” Combs with the keys to the town in Occasions Sq. on September 15, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Cindy Ord/Getty Pictures)
The July 30 submitting argued that utilizing the Mann Act — which Diddy was convicted underneath after being discovered responsible on two counts of transporting people for prostitution — is “unprecedented.”
All through his intercourse trafficking trial, Diddy’s attorneys argued that their shopper’s highly-orchestrated intercourse acts and events — known as “freak offs” and “hotel nights” by his exes Cassie Ventura and a girl who glided by Jane Doe throughout her testimony — had been consensual.
“Mr. Combs, at most, paid to engage in voyeurism as part of a ‘swingers’ lifestyle. That does not constitute ‘prostitution’ under a properly limited definition of the statutory term,” his attorneys state of their new submitting.
Diddy performs onstage in the course of the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Middle on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photograph by Noam Galai/Getty Pictures for MTV)
Regardless of what 12 women and men unanimously agreed upon final month, this paperwork continues:
“Even if ‘prostitution’ includes a defendant who pays to observe two other people have sex with each other, the evidence was insufficient to show that Mr. Combs had any such intent.”
“The proof at trial showed that he typically hired the services of male escorts or dancers advertised openly through lawful businesses [and] that the men were paid for their time, and that they enjoyed the activities and had friendships with Ms. Ventura and Jane and were not merely traveling to have sex for money.”
We’re no authorized consultants.
But it surely sounds in our opinion as if Diddy is simply whining in regards to the verdict.
Sean “Diddy” Combs attends the REVOLT X AT&T 3-Day Summit In Los Angeles – Day 1 at Magic Field on October 25, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Phillip Faraone/Getty Pictures for REVOLT)
This new movement, in the meantime, alleges that video of the intercourse acts had been simply “amateur pornography for later private viewing,” which is protected underneath the First Modification.
Translation, these attorneys need a decide to consider?
Diddy is a disgusting particular person. However he didn’t break any legal guidelines.
The star’s group notes that if the court docket declines an acquittal, they’re requesting a brand new trial due to the “severe spillover prejudice from reams of inflammatory evidence” used concerning the racketeering prices in opposition to him, notably the 2016 video of Combs bodily assaulting Ventura.
Diddy, for his half, will stay in jail till he returns to court docket on October 3 for his sentencing.
That’s, except Donald Trump pardons him first.
