Overview

• Judge Arun Subramanian denied Combs’s renewed bail request, finding he failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that he posed no danger to the community.
• Prosecutors have informed the court that federal sentencing guidelines could call for a prison term substantially higher than the four to five years initially projected.
• Combs’s attorneys filed a 62-page motion asking the court to vacate his convictions on two Mann Act counts or grant a new trial focused on those charges.
• Defense counsel described his nearly 11 months at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as a form of sensory deprivation and cited harsh conditions in bail filings.
• President Trump told Newsmax that pardoning Combs is ‘more difficult’ after past hostility, and White House insiders say a pardon appears unlikely.