
Diddy Wants To Block "Mia" Accuser From His Sentencing Hearing
Diddy desires to cease his former assistant, Mia, from addressing the courtroom throughout his upcoming sentencing listening to. In keeping with AllHipHop’s Grouchy Greg Watkins, the Dangerous Boy mogul’s authorized group argued in a brand new emergency movement that listening to from the accuser can be “redundant and prejudicial.” She beforehand testified about her allegations through the high-profile trial, earlier this yr.
Mia additionally penned a sufferer assertion for the prosecution’s latest memo outlining why they are going to be searching for “at the least 135 months’ imprisonment” for Diddy. “I’m writing to you on behalf of my youthful self…the little lady who as soon as dreamed with out worry…that little lady is gone. She was buried alive by an abuser,” she wrote. As for her alleged damages, she added: “I reside with persistent and extreme PTSD, melancholy, and crippling nervousness. I undergo from deeply intrusive ideas, derealization, panic assaults, night time terrors, and insomnia…there have been instances when I didn’t need to reside.”
Within the new submitting, prosecutors argued that she ought to nonetheless get to voice her story, regardless of the jury’s acquittal of Diddy on fees of alleged intercourse trafficking and racketeering. “Mia was courageous to testify at trial and is much more courageous to be prepared to talk the reality at sentencing after the decision,” they wrote. They added that the protection’s worry of a brief assertion “speaks volumes as to what it believes could be the affect of her telling the reality.”
When Is Diddy’s Sentencing Listening to?
Feb 4, 2018; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Recording artist P. Diddy a/okay/a Sean Combs previous to the sport between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles Tremendous Bowl LII at U.S. Financial institution Stadium. Necessary Credit score: Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports activities by way of Imagn Photographs
Diddy’s sentencing listening to will start on Friday, October 3. Along with not wanting Mia to talk on the listening to, Diddy desires his personal alternative to talk. “The sentencing continuing holds vital significance for Mr. Combs,” his lawyer, Teny Geragos, wrote in a submitting obtained by TMZ. “He needs to seem earlier than the Courtroom, tackle Your Honor, and allocute in probably the most dignified and respectful vogue doable.”
As for Diddy’s authorized group, they imagine that he has already spent sufficient time behind bars. “It’s time for Mr. Combs to go dwelling to his household, so he can proceed his remedy and attempt to profit from the following chapter of his extraordinary life. A sentence no larger than 14 months is plainly ‘ample, however not larger than essential’ to perform the needs of sentencing,” his attorneys wrote in a latest movement, as caught by Individuals.