Overview

• Manhattan prosecutors warned that sentencing guidelines for Combs’s two transportation-for-prostitution convictions could exceed the previously expected four to five years and urged the judge to keep him jailed pending sentencing.
• Judge Arun Subramanian has maintained Combs’s detention, finding he failed to show by clear and convincing evidence that he poses no danger to the community.
• Combs’s legal team filed a 62-page motion this week asking the court to vacate his prostitution-related convictions or grant a new trial focused solely on those counts.
• President Trump called Combs “half-innocent” but indicated he is unlikely to grant a presidential pardon, and defense counsel described clemency talk as mere rumors.
• Combs has been held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since his September 2024 arrest, and his lawyers have highlighted its harsh, sensory-deprivation conditions.