Diddy’s legal team is doing everything they can to get him out of the slammer. From personal statements from friends and family to an apology from Diddy himself, his attorneys are now pulling out another card to convince the judge to let him out.
At today’s sentencing, Defense lawyer Brian Steel revealed that a guard at the Brooklyn jail where Diddy has been detained since his arrest stopped a man with a shank who was trying to get ahold of the mogul. Steel noted that there’s a major target on his back at MDC Brooklyn — another reason why they believe he needs to be released.
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It’s a lot for the judge to consider and emotional for Diddy, hearing all of this in court as he awaits his fate. So far, Diddy’s children have tearfully asked the judge for mercy. The courtroom also showed Diddy breaking down in tears during the playing of a video about his life at his sentencing hearing in Manhattan federal court.
Prosecutors are gunning for an 11-year sentence for Combs, 55, who was convicted in July of flying people across state lines for marathon sexual encounters. As we previously reported, jurors acquitted him of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges that could have carried a life sentence.
Before sentencing, Diddy sent a letter to the judge apologizing and pleading for mercy. It read:
“I want to apologize and say how sincerely sorry I am for all of the hurt and pain that I have caused others by my conduct,” he wrote. “This has been the hardest 2 years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself,” he wrote.
He continued,
“The scene and images of me assaulting Cassie play over and over in my head daily. I literally lost my mind. I was dead wrong for putting my hands on the woman that I loved,” he wrote.
“Jail is designed to break you mentally, physically and spiritually. Over the past year there have been so many times that I wanted to give up. There have been some days I thought I would be better off dead. The old me died in jail and a new version of me was reborn. Prison will change you or kill you—I choose to live,” he stated.
He concluded,
“I humbly ask you for another chance—another chance to be a better father, another chance to be a better son, another chance to be a better leader in my community, and another chance to live a better life. I am writing this not to gain any sympathy or pity, this experience is simply the truth of my existence and has changed my life forever and I will never commit a crime again,” he said.
With all of this on the table, will the judge let him walk free with conditions? Stay tuned as we find out.
