WEBVTT - 50 months for Diddy 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.720 Hey, there are folks. It is Friday, October third. Sean 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:13.399 Diddy Combs will be in prison for another three plus years. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.080 Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Ropes. We 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.360 need some context here. We just got the sentencing for 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.759 Sean Didty Combs. He has been sentenced to four years 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.600 two months in jail. Fifty months total is what we got. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.360 Now he's spent fourteen in jail already. There's time served 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:35.199 and all this stuff or good behavior, But the bottom line, folks, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.000 is that Sean Didty Combs is going to be in 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.240 prison for years to come. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.080 That's correct, and in fact, there have already been speculation 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.000 that if he has good behavior, he could possibly get 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:48.720 out in two and a half years. But it is 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.839 certainly not what Sean Combs wanted. That's not what his 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:59.000 defense team wanted, and he seemed he didn't seem he 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.920 seemed disappointed. I guess that's probably the best way to 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.720 put it when the verdict was read. But I know 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.479 that many of you who are following along and watching 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.039 the judges comments as they were coming down through some 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.520 of those live reports from reporters in the courtroom, many 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.600 of us present party included thought that the judge was 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.640 going to go even harsher, was going to add even 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.080 more years. I was actually, in a sense relieved because 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.520 I thought he was going to throw the book at 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.800 him by what he was saying leading up to the 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:28.680 actual sentencing. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.680 And to a certain degree, Shan Ditecombs and his lawyers 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.640 might feel like the book has been thrown at them 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:38.040 at him because they were asking for fourteen months. He's 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.440 been in prison for thirteen months already during the trial, 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.679 so it's almost a time serve situation, and they are 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.760 in their minds thinking about him being home maybe immediately 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.040 or at least in time for the holidays, is what 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.360 we're talking about. Ropes. This was a big dramatic moment 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.559 today when it was revealed that he had speaking engagements 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.480 lined up five six of them at a nonprofit that 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.000 works with incosts are in people. So it was still 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.720 supposed to be something he was giving back to the community, 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.200 but it was revealed during his sentencing hearing that this 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.840 man whose life is on the line and going possibly 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.080 to prison for years. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.200 Is already planning being free. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.919 Judge can't feel good about that now, No end good. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.320 Calls, and because we had people who were in the 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.680 courtroom watching. He actually his head snapped up, I believe 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.720 is how they described it when the prosecutors dropped that bomb. 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.720 And I do think that was a moment where he thought, oh, no, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.280 that's not good. And it certainly was not a good 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.919 look to have someone who was facing up to eleven 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.800 but maybe even twenty years behind bars already planning or 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.799 assuming that he could be free in a week. And 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.080 so that was not a good look. And it spoke 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.600 to I even said to you, do you think his lawyers, 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.600 people close to him convinced him made him believe that 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.560 he was actually going to be free after this hearing? 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.240 The answer has to be maybe, or even probably. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.000 Look that look, some of us there was a lot 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:17.280 of conversation around the possibility of him going home today 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.360 and if we thought it, you know, that was best 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.400 case scenario. Maybe thought it was pie in the sky, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.880 but there was some part of him who thought that. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.960 And you do not make possible plans for next week 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.160 and the next two weeks in Miami if you think 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:33.680 you're going to prison for a long. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.680 But you were shocked when you heard that. I was 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.480 shocked when I heard that. I don't think any one 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.360 of us actually thought that was highly likely. Yes, there 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.520 was a chance, but it was a chance. So it 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.600 was very shocking to hear that he actually thought it 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.040 was significantly more than a chance, enough to actually schedule 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:57.880 potential speeches outside of prison as a free man in Miami, 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.000 starting to go ahead and give back to the community, 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:06.040 moving past a prison sentence. That was fairly shocking to me. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.040 The context there. Yes, the prosecution kind of dropped that 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:11.360 bomb and let everybody know he had these speaking engagements. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.320 It comes out and in fact it was a nonprofit. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.920 Then his attorney explained it later by saying, yeah, we 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.560 want him to have things to do or to look 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.720 forward to, or to have an anticipation for. Is how 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.680 they explained it. Fine either way, at the end of 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.839 the day, it didn't matter much to this Judge Robes. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.280 We sat here, this is how it happened today in court. Look, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:31.839 we didn't know how long this thing was going to go. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:32.960 This was an all day affair. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.880 We did not anticipate that at all. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:37.440 We didn't think they were going to have a lunch break. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:38.960 And then they took a lunch break and said, oh, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:40.640 we need to get settled in here for a little bit, 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.120 but a key component. We had an earlier episode where 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.839 we're explaining what happened previously in court, but here we 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.040 just want to go through what did he said and 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:54.719 what the judge said. So they requested, I don't know 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:59.520 if this happens, but the judge granted it. The defense asked, hey, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.720 I know the prosecution has a rebuttal coming, so they 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.479 were going to get to have a rebuttal to everything 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.000 the defense did. They said, but we would like and 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.400 we asked that Sean Diddy Combs be allowed to speak 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:16.640 after the prosecution rebuttal. Point there being the last person 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.400 the judge got to hear from today before he made 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:21.200 his decision was Sean Diddy Combs. 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:25.159 That's right, and he had a twelve minute speech so 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.760 to speak to the court where he first of all 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.599 thanked the judge in the court for giving him the 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.280 opportunity to finally speak, and he talked about how that 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.800 was one of the most difficult parts about the entire trial, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.679 was not being able to express He said, how sorry 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.800 I am for my actions. I want to thank you 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.760 for giving me the chance to finally speak up for myself. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.960 So we said being quiet, staying quiet was incredibly difficult, 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.120 and he did start off with an apology, which I 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.479 did think was the right call. He apologized for any 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:02.039 harm or hurt that he caused Cassie ventur Fine. He 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.839 also apologized to Jane, saying that that's of course a 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.479 pseudonym for one of his former girlfriends, that he was 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.480 sorry that I brought you into my mess. He also 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.520 apologized to all victims of domestic violence, citing the video 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.279 that we all saw that was played at nauseum during 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.880 trial of him beating ventur A Cassie Ventur Fine in 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.880 twenty sixteen that we saw last year, but certainly was 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.560 the centerpiece perhaps of the prosecution's case against him when 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.239 it came to the violence in which he was able 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.640 to control Cassie and other women. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.880 That was We've mentioned that again and I said to 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.960 you a moment ago, I mean, he's gotten people going 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.320 to talk about this. Yes, he was sentenced to four 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:52.800 years and two months officially for transportation to participate in prostitution. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.040 And I said to you, a lot of people had 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.719 an issue with him doing a lot of time for 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.279 crimes that he wasn't convicted of, and even in the 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.000 hearing today the judge said, I am going to allow 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.400 conduct that you weren't convicted of to be a factor 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.680 in my sentencing for you, I said to you about 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.680 that video. Man, if everybody was speculating, he's probably gonna 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.200 get five years six to everybody. Whoever, if you're listening 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.360 right now, you've had a conversation with somebody saying, what 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.040 do you think he's gonna get four years two months 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.080 that video alone? If you told me you want to 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.520 give him four years, two months, five years, six years 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.040 just for the video of what we saw happening with 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.040 Cassie Venturo, I don't know how you could make an 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:38.800 argument against that. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.040 I think most people would be okay with that, and 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.840 especially in the context of that was just one moment, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:50.840 that was just one day, that there were countless incidents 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.600 that were similar to that that we didn't see, that 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.800 we would never see. That only she could describe that, 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.680 only she lived through. So but to actually have that 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.640 physical proof that we could actually witness with our own eyes, 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.480 you can't unsee it, and seeing how brutal it was, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.920 how vicious it was, I do believe that the sentence 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.800 that was handed down today, I agree with you by 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.400 just looking at that video, I don't think many people 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.320 could argue that that wasn't a just sentence, even if 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.200 it were just for that particular singular moment. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.280 Just as a human being, You're not that was just awful. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.000 That's going to stick with all of us. But just that, 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.079 and again, a lot of the legales we don't understand 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:34.720 and what's right and the man act and all this 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.960 back and forth. What we understand is not all the 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.520 racketeering and all No, what we understand is that this 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:46.000 man we see beating a woman, This man we hear 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.320 in court day and day out. A lot of this 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:55.160 was not disputed. Harassing, abusing, assaulting. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:59.440 Threatening women, yes, and people right kicking someone while they're down. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.600 I mean, that is kind of one of the lowest 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.960 things you can do to someone. And that is actually 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:05.120 what we witnessed. 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.679 And again, I know his family is hurting, but on 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.000 a human level, And even if you don't understand all 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.520 the legal back and forth, you don't have a problem 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:21.080 saying this is unjust like he got too much. You're 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.439 not going to say that. You can make an argument 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.040 he didn't get enough. But it's difficult to make an 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.800 argument right Robes that yes, he's got too much time 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.160 with the judge was too harsh on. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.320 I think that that is a very fair way to 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.240 look at it. I mean, everyone's going to have their 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.400 individual opinion, but I do think that, and again, I 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.560 think the judge was building it up. We were actually 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.240 at the edge of our seats looking and refreshing to 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.400 get the court room reporters like minute by minute, blow 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.280 by blow, what's happening in court, And when you were 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.520 hearing what the judge was saying, it seemed as though 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.200 he was going to be much harsher. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:58.400 Oh yeah, I'm sure. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.679 I was like, oh my god, he might actually get 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.280 ten years, he might get seven years. We were really 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.120 thinking that. So then when he ended up saying fifty months, 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.160 it actually felt like a little bit of a relief, like, Okay, 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.040 it's not going to be that much. And then when 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.440 we really processed it, it actually felt pretty fair. 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.080 Can you say a relief? Not that we wanted him 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.000 to get what I'm saying, what you were saying, and 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:22.760 I don't know what you're saying that we for a 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.480 moment while the judge was speaking, said, holy hell, he's 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.280 going to give him more than the eleven Yes, like 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.320 he was sounding that harsh yes to where we thought 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.120 Diddy was going away for a long decades. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:38.400 He could have been sent away for twenty years period. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.720 That absolutely could have happened, and that was within the 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.240 judge's discretion to do that. So it was possible. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.760 So Didy in making his what was it twelve minutes, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.040 they said it was well. They spoke to the judge. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.800 He said, I asked your honor for the chance to 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.319 be a father again. I asked your honor for the 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.360 chance to be a son again. I asked your honor 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.480 for the chance to be a leader in my community again. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.320 I asked for a chance to get the help that 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.000 I desperately need to become a better person, because I 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.160 don't want to let God down. I don't want to 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.680 let my family down. I would have robes that I 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.520 can't imagine what this was like to hear him speak 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:16.160 in that quote room. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.760 He actually used the word beg. He begged the judge 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.679 for mercy. That was a very humble moment. I do 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.000 appreciate what he said as well, when he said I 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:32.160 can't change the past, but can change the future. And 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.160 that's when he said, I asked your honor for mercy. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.679 I beg your honor for mercy to be a father again, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.040 a son again, and be a leader in my community again, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.679 and get the help I desperately need. So that I 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:51.560 thought that was a heartfelt moment. When he, you know 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:55.920 I mentioned in the episode earlier, like some of his 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:02.760 pleas for mercy, with some of the highly produced video 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.640 that he sent and some of the things he said 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.680 in his letter, I was a little bit turned off by. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.000 But I do think he did humble himself in front 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.880 of the court. Not that it meant that he should 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.200 have gotten off or away or let out immediately, but 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.760 I do think that it did feel heartfelt. It did 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:22.720 feel authentic. 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.960 The judge though, as we mentioned, he certainly built this 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.000 thing up, and there was anticipation, and you could tell, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.080 really almost robes from the moment the hearings started this 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.680 morning at ten o'clock. Things were not gonna go Sean 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.439 diddy Combe's way. And then once we did start hearing 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.120 from the judge, right before he was going to announce 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:50.640 the fifty months sentence, you would have been convinced that 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.760 this judge was about to throw the book. Yep. Isn't 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.520 that the phrase yes, throw the book at Diddy, We'll 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.960 tell you stay here after the break what the joke 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.280 judge said that had us thinking, did he was gonna 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.560 go away for eleven, twelve, fifteen years? Even? Stay here? 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.280 All right, folks, we continue now, Seawan Didty Combs fifty 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.920 months in prison? That is his sentence. That equates to 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.400 four years and two months. Do the math with the 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:30.160 thirteen almost coming up on fourteen months he's already done, 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.679 that would mean about another three years in prison for 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.520 Sean did He Combs. I don't know the math. Good behavior, 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.000 but you've been looking into this. He could potentially get 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:40.520 out two and. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.280 A half years, is what a lot of folks think. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.839 He'll be in prison for another thirty months or so, 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:47.640 give or take. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.880 All right, So that is what we know now of 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.640 this whole ordeal. Yes, Shawn Combs is going to PRIs 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.319 this medium mogul, the guy who has who literally was 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.600 a part of changing the game and music changing what 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:03.040 hip hop, taking hip around the world. This guy is 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.800 an icon in the industry and one of the biggest 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.920 self made entrepreneurs we have ever seen in hip hop. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.360 Is going to prison for three years excuse me, forty. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:18.560 Fifty months, fifty months, but so it'll be a total four. Yes. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.400 I just want to make sure I continue to stay clear. 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.360 Now the judge when he started, so did he got 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.880 to speak. He was the last person to speak before 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.560 the judge got to speak. And roads when the judge started, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.800 our eye rives started like wait, whoa wait, and then 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.080 every update we got was worse than the last one. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.320 Correct or did he at least yes? Because he said, yes, 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.600 I'm considering the fact that you're a self made artist. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.840 I'm considering the fact that you've inspired and lifted up 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.400 your community. He noted his philanthropic work, his devotion to 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.480 his family, his work battling his own drug addiction. But 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.920 this is when you get the butt. However, the court 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.360 has to consider all of your history here and he said, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.600 a hit, this is this is an important phrase, and 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.600 we went, oh, no, a history of good works can't 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.320 wash away the record in this case, which shows that 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.000 you abuse the power and control over the lives of 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.800 women who you professed to love. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.040 We heard that though, whoa uh, oh, this is this 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:16.040 is not going his way. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.240 And then when he said this was subjugation, and it 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.880 drove both Miss Ventura and Jane to thoughts of ending 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:28.920 their lives. That was significant. I thought, my goodness, he's 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.960 actually almost accusing him of attempted murder in a way. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.760 That was what he's like, You are responsible for their 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.280 feelings of suicide. And so then he went on to 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.720 say the court is not assured that if released, these 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.840 crimes will not be committed again. That one was a doozy. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.280 You said it earlier, and it's weird to say this 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.200 about this particular judge on brand. This dude has been consistent, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:56.000 isn't that all You really want to be treated You 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.960 want to be treated fairly, but you want a guy 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.520 to be consistent. And he has been consistent because they 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.360 have been asking and asking and asking since this trial 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.920 started in beforehand. Please let did he go home. We'll 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.240 do anything you want, give any money, you want, any ankle, monitoring, 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.800 any security. Just let him go home. And every turn 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.920 the judge said, nope, I am not convinced this dude 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:17.480 ain't a threat. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.960 He also, this was really powerful when the judge rejected 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.520 the idea that Diddy was a casual consumer of prostitution services. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:27.800 You know, they were trying to say that he was 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:33.320 an amateur, a John or an amateur porn producer, whatever 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.280 they were trying to say. But the judge said this, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.880 you were no John. You were more than that. Even 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:45.800 if your currency was satisfying your sexual desires instead of money. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.720 That hit because that was the big argument with the defense. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.600 He didn't profit from this. He didn't earn money from 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.320 from putting his girlfriends out or having some sort of process. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.520 There was no there was no financial gain from him 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.160 for him, and so the judge said, your currency was 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:09.320 satisfying your sexual desires. And honestly, that did ring true. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.479 And this is all star starting to pile up. We 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.479 were sitting and watching we just we had and we 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.240 wanted to say thank you to CBS, to CNN, to 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.200 New York Times, Post, New York Times, at the NBC News. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.159 We had all five of y'all's live feeds up and 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.240 we were depending on those reporters to give us infos 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.400 that we want to say thank you to you all, 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.679 and we're passing this stuff along. But as we were 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:38.159 keeping up robes, the judge like are We were like, 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.920 holy hell, he is about to really throw the book 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.840 at this guy. But then he took moments and what 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.919 he was saying to acknowledge that Diddy is influential, that 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.480 he is iconic, that he has been good to the community. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.440 So this is where it turned, and we thought, oh, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:55.520 maybe he's balancing this thing out, Maybe it won't be 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:56.080 so bad. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.000 He acknowledged that it was impressive what he had been 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.880 able to accomplish in the fact that his father had 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.280 died in early violent death and the trauma that must 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.879 have been left, So he was acknowledging what did he 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.080 had been through as a child. But then he said 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:15.120 his sentence was going to send a message to abusers 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.439 and victims alike that exploitation and violence against women is 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.240 met with real accountability. We were up and down, like 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.320 he's gonna go No, he's gonna go hard. Well, maybe 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:26.879 he's gonna give him a break. Oh my god, No, 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.920 he's gonna throw the We were back and forth because 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.800 the judge really did cover so many different bases when 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.080 he was leading up to the sentencing. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.520 I think a lot of people might have applauded that sentence. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:41.040 You're making that sentence, and that sentiment like, I actually 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.280 do need to send a message legally speaking? Is that 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.320 a part of I mean, the judge had discretion in 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.760 what he could do. He knew the guidelines, but he, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:54.320 for whatever reason, thought it was important to say that. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.560 I know, he acknowledged that everybody's watching this and think 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:02.280 that these victims have not been heard, that haven't been respected. 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:06.000 And he added that line, I think to cover a 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:06.720 lot of basis. 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.800 He did so. Yes, he sentenced Sean Comes to fifty months. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.520 He imposed a fine of half a million dollars. But 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.639 then I actually really loved what this judge did next. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.560 First he addressed Cassie Ventura, and he says, and the 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.800 other brave survivors that came forward, I want to say, first, 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.040 we heard you. I thought that was pretty cool, he said, 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:30.960 I am proud of you for coming to the court 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.399 to tell the world what really happened. You weren't just 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.760 speaking to the twelve folks in the jury box. You 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.560 were speaking to the millions of women out there who 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.879 have been victims, but who feel invisible and powerless and 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.720 have had to suffer in silence. You gave them a voice. 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.240 You stood up to power. It's not easy. You told 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.040 those women in the world that violence behind closed doors 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.840 doesn't have to stay hidden forever. The number of people 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.760 who you reached is incalculable. There are millions of survivors 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.560 out there. Most of those people will never speak up 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.159 about their abuse. The consequences are often tragic, as they 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:08.560 were in this case. I know you still bear the 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.560 trauma of what happened to you. You likely always will. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.600 But what you've taught us here by coming forward is 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.040 that even if you were a victim, you don't always 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.439 have to be. That gave me chills. 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:22.840 He didn't have to say that. That was powerful. He 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.240 gets it. He didn't have to say that. He chose 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.959 to say that. To say those words, and not just 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.120 to the women in this case, he sent that message 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:33.920 to the women of this country. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.040 And as kind as he was to them, and as 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:39.600 reassuring he was to the people out there who are victims, 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:44.320 he also then softened his tone towards Ditty next, and 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.679 I thought that was also pretty cool for him to 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:51.600 be able to strike that balance between both the victims 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.119 and then Ditty himself. And he told Diddy, there is 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:58.520 light at the end of this tunnel. You and your 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:00.760 family will get through this. I thought that was a 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.399 cool thing to say, as well, knowing and noting that 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:10.000 Diddy was visibly disappointed and visibly upset about what had happened. 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:15.760 Tough day for that family, and just an awful, I 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:20.919 mean awful couple of decades of experiences around Sean Dittycomb's 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.320 someone who, yes, I have looked up to since I 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.399 was in high school, and to be sitting here reporting 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:32.639 about this, I think none of us expected anything like this. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.480 But it is a tragedy all around. Yeah, it's a tragedy. 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.000 We talked about this with the story with the raising 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:43.120 money for the family of the shooter, and right there 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.280