The government has demonstrated “by clear and convincing evidence that there is no condition or set of conditions” that can guarantee the community’s safety and that the rapper and music mogul won’t tamper with witnesses, according to US District Judge Andrew L. Carter.
After entering a not guilty plea to three felony counts during his initial court appearance on Tuesday, he was initially told he would not be granted bail and would be placed under arrest.
On Wednesday, Combs’ attorneys requested that the judge hold Combs’ trial at his opulent estate on an island close to Miami Beach rather than in a Brooklyn jail.
Prosecutors, however, opposed the plan, claiming that Combs posed an excessive risk of endangering or threatening witnesses.
In exchange for Combs being released to home detention with GPS monitoring and stringent visitation restrictions, Combs’s attorneys offered a $50 million (£37.8 million) bail deal.
Prosecutor Emily Johnson made the case to the judge that Combs had a history of intimidating witnesses to his alleged abuse as well as those who made the accusations against him.
According to text messages referenced by Ms. Johnson, ladies said that Combs made them participate in “Freak Offs” and threatened to release explicit films of them having sex.
Furthermore, according to her, Combs’s own legal team was “minimising and horrifically understating” his violent tendencies.
