Overview

• Combs’ attorneys filed an almost 400-page sentencing memo on September 23 asking the court to limit his prison term to no more than 14 months.
• He has spent about 13 months in pre-sentencing detention at Brooklyn’s MDC, which could make him eligible for near-term release if the request is granted.
• Prosecutors are preparing their own memo seeking a substantially longer sentence after earlier indications of a four-to-five-year range.
• The defense alleges inhumane confinement, including no clean water, overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of fresh air or sunlight, inadequate medical care, and renewed suicide watch.
• A July jury cleared Combs of sex-trafficking and extortion but convicted him on two Mann Act counts carrying up to 10 years each, and the judge has repeatedly denied release ahead of the October 3 hearing.