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Speaker 1: Crime Alarc hourly update, Breaking crime News.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm Nicole Parton. Sean Ditty Combs is pushing back

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Speaker 2: against federal prosecutors who are challenging his request to overturn

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Speaker 2: his Man Act conviction. He argues that the government is

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Speaker 2: misapplying the definition of prostitution in his case and believes

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Speaker 2: he is entitled to at least a new trial. In

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Speaker 2: newly released legal documents, Ditty's defense team criticizes the federal

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Speaker 2: government's stance as they advocate for Judge Aaron's Submarinean to

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Speaker 2: either acquit Ditty of the Man Act charges or grant

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Speaker 2: him a new retrial. Did He contends that prosecutors are

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Speaker 2: relying on a contemporary interpretation of the word prostitution, whereas

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Speaker 2: the Man Act, originally passed in nineteen ten as the

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Speaker 2: quote White Slave Traffic Act, should be assessed using its

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Speaker 2: historical definition. He asserts that under the nineteen ten definition,

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Speaker 2: the prostitute was simply defined as a woman engaging in

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Speaker 2: sexual relations outside of marriage. The prosecution, according to Ditty,

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Speaker 2: is incorrectly narrowing the definition to imply that prostitution refers

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Speaker 2: solely to transactional sex. He also argues that there was

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Speaker 2: insufficient evidence to prove he paid mail escorts for sexual

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Speaker 2: encounters with his partners, reiterating his claim that the men

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Speaker 2: were compensated for their companionship. Did he insist that he

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Speaker 2: is merely a voyeur and that his behavior is acceptable.

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Speaker 2: Didty's legal team is urging the court to either clare

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Speaker 2: him of the charges or at the very least allow

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Speaker 2: for a new trial. As a reminder, he was acquitted

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Speaker 2: on July two of racketeering and sex trafficking charges, with

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Speaker 2: the jury only convicting him of two minor charges related

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Speaker 2: to transporting individuals for prostitution under that Man Act. Following

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Speaker 2: the verdict, did he had filed emotion seeking acquittal or

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Speaker 2: a new trial, which prosecutors opposed. Now he is firmly

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Speaker 2: standing his ground, applying yet again time is of the essence,

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Speaker 2: as did He is scheduled to be sentenced on October three,

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Speaker 2: or Crime Injustice news after this, A doctor from Michigan

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Speaker 2: is facing extradition after being caught by a detective in

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Speaker 2: Port Saint Lucie attempting to arrange a sexual encounter with

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Speaker 2: a fictitious five year old. According to law enforcement officials,

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Speaker 2: the Port Saint Lucie Police Department initiated an undercover investigation

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Speaker 2: in June when doctor William J. Murdoch began having a

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Speaker 2: conversation online with a person posing as quote a mom

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Speaker 2: who was actually a detective. Authorities alleged that Murdoch sought

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Speaker 2: to establish a relationship with the mother to determine if

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Speaker 2: she would permit her imaginary five year old child to

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Speaker 2: engage in sexual activities with the doctor. Throughout the investigation,

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Speaker 2: detectives reported that Murdoch sent deeply disturbing messages detailing his

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Speaker 2: intentions regarding that child. A forensic analysis of his iCloud

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Speaker 2: and messaging accounts uncovered alarming searches on the dark web,

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Speaker 2: including discussions about conception, full term abortions, and the deliberate

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Speaker 2: use of drugs and alcohol to induce birth defects. Following

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Speaker 2: this evidence, the PSLPD issued a warrant for Murdoch's arrest

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Speaker 2: for attempting to solicit a parent for sexual conduct involving

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Speaker 2: a child. He was subsequently captured by the US Marshals

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Speaker 2: and is set to be extradited back to Florida.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful, young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times? Including in the back allegedly die of suicide. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was a medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting, he first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg a huge American miscarriage of justice.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see What

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Partner