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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Friday, October, third sentencing day for Diddy.

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Speaker 1: They're on a lunch break as we speak, but we

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Speaker 1: wanted to hop on because it has been a morning

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Speaker 1: of developments and some of them jaw dropping. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and TJ Romes. We didn't know

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Speaker 1: how long this thing was going to go. They're taking

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Speaker 1: a lunch break, coming back at Too Eastern, still expecting

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Speaker 1: to hear from Diddy. But this morning, things right off

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Speaker 1: the bat were not going his way. Right off the jump,

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Speaker 1: just hearing from the judge, you could tell he lost

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Speaker 1: a couple of or Diddy at least lost a couple

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Speaker 1: of arguments, if you will, with his attorneys and things

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Speaker 1: they were trying to get into the sentencing memo, and

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Speaker 1: we all kind of and a lot of reporters in

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Speaker 1: the room that we are grateful for. There was a

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Speaker 1: tone to where things weren't going his way well, and.

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Speaker 2: It's the tone that we've heard from this judge. It

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Speaker 2: feels like since the onset, and certainly as we've seen

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Speaker 2: Diddy over the last several months try to eat, get

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Speaker 2: out on bail, awaiting sentencing, trying to get charges or

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Speaker 2: convictions thrown out, and the judge has not sided with

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Speaker 2: him one single time from what I can recall. So

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Speaker 2: he's consistent and he's staying on brand today.

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Speaker 1: That's a very good point. The judge didn't surprise us

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Speaker 1: at all with what he did. Off the top, we'll

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Speaker 1: explain that this start at ten o'clock this morning. All

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Speaker 1: of Didy's kids are there, his mom is there. He's

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Speaker 1: described today as somber by some people in the courtroom

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Speaker 1: from the courtroom observers. But today he dressed very casually.

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Speaker 1: He's not in his prison uniform he's allowed to wear today,

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Speaker 1: at least he was allowed to wear street clothes and

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Speaker 1: V neck, tan sweater or something like that today. Now,

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Speaker 1: headline one robes Mia, who testified under that pseudonym Mia

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Speaker 1: former assistant. She requested to address the court. We found

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Speaker 1: out immediately ain't happening.

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Speaker 2: It ain't happening, and it didn't look good for Diddy

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Speaker 2: because his lawyers sent a note to the courts, to

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Speaker 2: the judge asking that she not be allowed to testify

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Speaker 2: because they claim she is not a victim. Now technically

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Speaker 2: did he was not convicted on the allegations made by Mia.

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Speaker 2: But even the judge ruled that the way the tone

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Speaker 2: of the letter was that it was inappropriate. The prosecution

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Speaker 2: said that it was a bullying tactic by Diddy and

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Speaker 2: his defense team. So by them trying to get Mia

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Speaker 2: not to testify, which she is not going to, she

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Speaker 2: sent a letter instead, it didn't make them look good,

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Speaker 2: sympathetic or in any way despite his apologies that we've

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Speaker 2: heard about, that didn't make him feel very sympathetic or

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Speaker 2: that he had learned anything at least through this court system.

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Speaker 1: Because the at least in their argument that she shouldn't

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Speaker 1: making legal arguments. It sounded very personal, and even the

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Speaker 1: prosecutor called it unprofessional. They flat out called her a liar.

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Speaker 1: This is all a show for her. She wants to

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Speaker 1: come back now and be a part of the show.

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Speaker 1: And I said to you this morning we were getting read,

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Speaker 1: I said, man, I wonder if that could be seen

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Speaker 1: as like like she's not going to show up because

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Speaker 1: she might feel intimidated bullied. Yes, sure enough is exactly.

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Speaker 2: What happened, which is exactly what we've heard from people

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Speaker 2: like Cassi event to Refine, who say that's why they

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Speaker 2: don't want Ditty out because they say, sure, he's putting

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Speaker 2: on this nice guy show and telling you all these

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Speaker 2: wonderful things he's done in prison and how he's a

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Speaker 2: changed man. But when you read or heard about the

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Speaker 2: tone of that letter and how he didn't want Mia

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Speaker 2: to be given the opportunity to speak or address the

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Speaker 2: court about being a victim of his that was some

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Speaker 2: insight perhaps into this other diddy that we're hearing about

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Speaker 2: from Mia, from other witnesses, from his alleged victims.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, she did submit her letter, not the same impact,

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Speaker 1: but she did get a chance to submit a letter. Now,

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Speaker 1: the things we talked about off top that didn't go

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Speaker 1: his way Robes This is a big, big deal because

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Speaker 1: this was a part of the fight the defense was

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Speaker 1: happening with the prosecutors about what conduct of his should

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Speaker 1: be considered in his sentencing. His two convictions are for

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Speaker 1: transportation to engage in prostitution, essentially for being John. His

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Speaker 1: defense team argues like, if this is all you're sentencing

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Speaker 1: ten to twenty year sentence. Their argument is, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: saw him beat her on camera, Yes he was a

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Speaker 1: domestic abuser. Yes, he used drugs. Yeah, he wasn't convicted

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Speaker 1: for any of that stuff. Well, now the judge this

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Speaker 1: morning said, in fact, he is going to consider some

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Speaker 2: This was huge, yes, and this was a big legal

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Speaker 2: the legal point that that shouldn't be considered. But the

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Speaker 2: judge made it very clear that he can consider what

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Speaker 2: they call acquitted conduct, the conduct that he was charged

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Speaker 2: with but acquitted for, not convicted of by the jury.

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Speaker 2: So you can, and the judge can certainly take into

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Speaker 2: account Diddy's actions surrounding those charges that the jury didn't

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Speaker 2: find him guilty of, meaning MEA's testimony is going to

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Speaker 2: he makes his sentencing recommendation.

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Speaker 1: All right, So that was one thing, the acquitted conduct

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Speaker 1: can be considered. The other thing that can be considered

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Speaker 1: excuse me, not to be considered as a part of

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Speaker 1: the sentencing report. This pre sentencing report essentially you put

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Speaker 1: all the information in there and it kind of gives

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Speaker 1: you an equation for how much time somebody should get. Well.

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Speaker 1: The defense wanted to include in there that Didty had

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Speaker 1: taken responsibility for his actions. The judge said, oh, hell no,

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Speaker 1: he has not.

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Speaker 2: That is remarkable because yes, in our earlier episode, we

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Speaker 2: read for you most of if not all, of Ditty's

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Speaker 2: letter to the judge that he gave last night to

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Speaker 2: the court, where he did say he was sorry, where

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Speaker 2: he did write that he took full responsibility. But the

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Speaker 2: judge wooh. The judge said, he expressed remorse for some things,

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Speaker 2: but said quote Combs has challenged his factual guilt full

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Speaker 2: throatedly and had done so even after trial.

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Speaker 1: Ouch, how did she take responsibility if you're sitting here

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Speaker 1: saying I'm not guilty. That was as simple a plane

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Speaker 1: as you can make it. So they are not going

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Speaker 1: to include in this sentencing report that he took responsibility. Also,

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Speaker 1: the defense was arguing, trying to make sure in this

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Speaker 1: sentencing report do not call Cassie Jane or those male

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Speaker 1: prostitutes victims. Now, I don't know why this was so key,

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Speaker 1: but it mattered, and they argued about it. Once again.

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Speaker 1: The je said, on to the defense you're not gonna

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Speaker 2: Either, that's right. The judge is allowing Cassie Jane and

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Speaker 2: the male prostitutes to be referred to as victims in

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Speaker 2: this pre sentencing report. So, yes, he has been delivered

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Speaker 2: blow after blow today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this morning did not go well from him. And

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Speaker 1: then so everything we're telling you led to what we

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Speaker 1: are about to say now. So the defense Robes asked

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Speaker 1: for fourteen months based on their calculation. Prosecution said he

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Speaker 1: should get eleven years and three months based on their calculation.

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Speaker 1: The judge with this pre sentence of report this morning,

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Speaker 1: put all that information in there and he came up

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Speaker 1: with the actual number that should be considered for how

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Speaker 1: long did it should be in prison? In Robes, it

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Speaker 2: No, seventy to eighty seven months. That's what the judge's

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Speaker 2: calculation is based on the pre sentencing report. Everything that

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Speaker 2: was put in. Is there a formula, an actual mathematic

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Speaker 2: or is he doing it in his own math in

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Speaker 1: You know what. My understanding it is kind of like

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Speaker 1: a standard form. And then after that it pops out

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Speaker 1: this is the range of time he should get. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like it's like that. It's not literally that, but

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Speaker 1: it's like putting numbers in a formula into an equation

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Speaker 1: and then it spits out how much time you're to have.

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Speaker 1: And this is what got spit out. So now it's

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Speaker 1: not a matter that fourteen months and going home being

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Speaker 2: That's not happening. I think we can say that with

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Speaker 2: pretty great assurance that he is not going home before

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Speaker 1: Given this judge. Now after he has said this. So

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Speaker 1: that's what we're dealing with, is how far below or

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Speaker 1: above the guidelines does this joke?

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Speaker 2: So this guidelines is five years and ten months to

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Speaker 2: seven years and three months, so seventy months to eighty

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Speaker 2: seven months, that's I mean. So by that calculation minimum

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Speaker 2: five years and ten months, maximum seven years three months.

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Speaker 2: Now he can consider, like you said, to go up

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Speaker 2: or to go down based on what he sees in court,

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Speaker 2: but based on what we're hearing from the judge in court,

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Speaker 2: doesn't seem like he's inclined to go down.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, that's a better way to put it. Even

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't go up, I certainly don't feel like

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Speaker 1: he's going to go down. It doesn't seem that six

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Speaker 1: years for Diddy in prison potentially at this point what

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Speaker 1: we're looking at and indications seem to be fourteen months

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Speaker 1: so already that means he's an extra four years in

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Speaker 1: prison possibly, Yes.

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Speaker 2: And I think you know, you and I had been

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Speaker 2: talking about it, having followed this trial every single day.

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Speaker 2: We both kind of privately made our best guesses, and

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Speaker 2: you and I were both right around five years. We

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Speaker 2: said that seems like that might be where this is headed,

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Speaker 2: and could be that's exactly where this is headed or worse.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And so during the day today, this continue this morning.

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Speaker 1: So this is kind of again we didn't know how

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Speaker 1: what feels like now an almost full day of a hearing.

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Speaker 1: But the prosecution got to make a presentation, the defense

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Speaker 1: got to make a presentation as well. Those are through

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Speaker 1: at least, and the kids got to talk the prosecutors.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting. This was the moment of the morning.

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Speaker 1: I believe Robes that they described as like Diddy's head

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Speaker 1: even shot up and people, they said, every person in

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Speaker 1: the room, their mouth dropped open. Because this Robes, if

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Speaker 1: it is true, I can't believe for a second that

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Speaker 1: Diddy would be this stupid.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and because it does not look good. The prosecutor

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Speaker 2: told the court that Diddy had already booked speaking engagements

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Speaker 2: in Miami for next week and called it the height

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Speaker 2: of hubris for him to do that, that he had

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Speaker 2: such an expectation that he was going to be released

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Speaker 2: after this sentencing. Hearing that he actually booked speaking engagements

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Speaker 2: in Miami.

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Speaker 1: What was our reaction to it?

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Speaker 2: My jaw actually dropped.

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Speaker 1: I didn't think it was true.

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Speaker 2: You actually didn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: That can't be true. Nobody's that stupid. Did He's not?

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Speaker 1: Obviously not. Of course, you wouldn't do that. That's and

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Speaker 1: yet and yet it appears he did. However, there is

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Speaker 1: more to that story. There has been a letter, a

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Speaker 1: briefing that has been filed and put on file. They

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Speaker 1: were the court from a non profit organization in Miami

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Speaker 1: that deals with incarcerated individuals who are making a transition

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Speaker 1: back into society. He did, He, according to this letter

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Speaker 2: It's way too soon for that. He's just apologized yesterday

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Speaker 2: You see that yes, yes, exactly, and know what you're

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Speaker 2: But it also breaks my heart because my sister deserves

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Speaker 2: We know he isn't perfect, and he has made many mistakes,

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Speaker 1: I get that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what judges do. Well, that's just yes

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Speaker 1: Your heart breaks for those victims, for those women. It's hard.

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Speaker 2: it at that. Don't sit there and tell everybody how

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Speaker 1: And I get that. That is. Yes, he is trying

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Speaker 1: Would it make a difference, we don't know. And also

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Speaker 1: will it make a difference whatever he actually says in court. Yes, folks,

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Speaker 1: as we sit here, they're coming back from lunch break

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Speaker 1: rehearsed will he come off versus how authentic is what

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Speaker 1: you said. We have not had an opportunity in the

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Speaker 1: past year to see him as a human being until

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Speaker 1: maybe this moment. We didn't even see it, but him

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Speaker 1: crying because his kids were standing up there. That's a

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Speaker 1: human moment that comes through even reading about what's happening

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Speaker 2: I just hope we see more humility and less hubris.

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Speaker 1: All right, but folks, we will hop back on again,

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Speaker 1: will be another one today for sure about Sean Diddy

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Speaker 1: kom standing by waiting to see how long he is

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Speaker 1: going to stay in prison. The judge has now said

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Speaker 1: the guidelines say it should be anywhere from about six

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