Overview
- After 13 hours of deliberations over three days, jurors returned a split verdict on all five federal counts.
- Each transportation-to-prostitution conviction carries up to 10 years in prison, which could be ordered to run consecutively for a total of 20 years.
- Combs’s request for release was denied and he continues to be held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
- Sentencing is tentatively scheduled for October, though his defense team is seeking an earlier hearing date.
- Prosecutors built their case over seven weeks with testimony from 34 witnesses and hotel surveillance footage depicting drug-fueled “freak-off” parties.