Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to make first appearance before trial judge in sex trafficking case

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean “Diddy” Combs is ready to make his first look earlier than the decide who is anticipated to preside over the hip-hop powerbroker’s trial on intercourse trafficking fees.

Combs can be dropped at Manhattan federal court docket from a Brooklyn jail for a Thursday afternoon look earlier than Choose Arun Subramanian.

The listening to is anticipated to lead to deadlines being set for attorneys on both sides to submit arguments that can set up the boundaries for a trial that Combs’ attorneys wish to begin in April or Could. Prosecutors haven’t expressed a desire for when the trial may happen.

The decide was assigned to the case after one other decide recused himself primarily based on his previous associations with attorneys within the case.

Combs, 54, has pleaded not responsible to fees lodged towards him final month. These fees included racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking primarily based on allegations that return to 2008.

An indictment alleges Combs coerced and abused girls for years with assist from a community of associates and workers whereas silencing victims via blackmail and violent acts together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.

His attorneys have been attempting unsuccessfully to get the founding father of Dangerous Boy Data freed on bail since his Sept. 16 arrest.

Two judges have concluded that Combs is a hazard to the group if he’s freed. At a bail listening to three weeks in the past, a decide rejected a $50 million bail package deal, together with residence detention and digital monitoring, after concluding that Combs was a menace to tamper with witnesses and hinder a seamless investigation.

In an attraction of the bail rulings to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals, attorneys for Combs on Tuesday requested a panel of judges to reverse the bail findings, saying the proposed bail package deal “would plainly cease him from posing a hazard to anybody or contacting any witnesses.”

They urged the appeals court docket to reject the findings of a lower-court decide who they stated had “endorsed the federal government’s exaggerated rhetoric and ordered Mr. Combs detained.”