Sean “Diddy” Combs returned to the Metropolitan Detention Heart (MDC) in Brooklyn final week to a standing ovation from his fellow inmates, his lawyer Marc Agnifilo advised the Related Press in an interview revealed Sunday.
“All of them stated: ‘We by no means get to see anybody who beats the federal government,’” he defined.
A jury discovered Combs responsible on two prostitution fees however not responsible of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking on final week. The break up July 2 verdict arrived after seven weeks of a trial that included testimony from 34 people, together with ex-girlfriends {and professional} associates. Combs stays in jail and faces as much as 20 years behind bars.
Agnifilo stated he warned Combs he may count on to be arrested on intercourse trafficking fees after federal authorities raided his house in March 2024. “I stated: ‘Perhaps it’s your destiny in life to be the man who wins. They should see that somebody can win. I feel he took that to coronary heart,” Agnifilo.
The legal professional additionally stated the workforce deliberately met Combs’ abuse towards former companions and workers head-on. “The violence was so clear and up entrance and we knew the federal government was going to attempt to confuse the jury into pondering it was a part of a intercourse trafficking effort. So we needed to inform the jury what it was so that they wouldn’t suppose it was one thing it wasn’t,” he defined.
Agnifilo stated he awoke early the morning of the decision and advised the authorized workforce to get bail organized. He additionally advised the group, “It’s going to be a great verdict for us, however I feel he went down on the prostitution counts so let’s attempt to get him out.”
Agnifilo can be deeply educated of New York’s racketeering legal guidelines, having expanded their use when he labored as a federal prosecutor 20 years in the past.
“I knew the weak factors within the statute,” he stated. “The statute could be very mechanical. If you understand how the automotive works, the place the fail factors are.”
The prosecution, he continued, had “dozens of fail factors” that sank their case. “They didn’t have a conspiracy, they simply didn’t,” he added. “They mainly had Combs’ private life and tried to construct racketeering round private assistants.”
