New York, Oct 2, (dpa/GNA) – US federal prosecutors are asking that rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was convicted earlier this year of sexual offences, serve 11 years and three months in prison.
Court documents filed by the prosecution on Tuesday said the sentence, should reflect the way the crimes were committed, accusing Combs of inflicting “decades of unchecked violence” and “decades of psychological, emotional and physical damage.”
Combs’ defence called the recommendation “draconian,” noting he has already served 14 months in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Combs’ former partner, Cassie Ventura, who testified during the trial, wrote in a court letter that she fears retaliation if he is released from custody.
The sentence is scheduled to be announced on Friday.
Jurors at a federal courthouse in New York found Combs guilty, only on the least severe charge related to prostitution, acquitting him of conspiracy to commit organized crime and human trafficking, while convicting him on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Had he been convicted on all counts, he could have faced life in prison.
GNA