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Speaker 1: Crime Alart, hourly update, breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm Sidney Sumner. Sean Combs is headed descendencing in

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Speaker 2: just a few hours. The rat mogul will learn how

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Speaker 2: much longer he will remain behind bars at the Brooklyn

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Speaker 2: Metropolitan Detention Center. While defense attorneys want just fourteen months,

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Speaker 2: the Feds ask the judge to put Combs away for

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Speaker 2: eleven years. Prosecutors argue Combs is clearly unrepentant and has

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Speaker 2: left his victims living in fear. They asked that his

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Speaker 2: sentence reflect the decades of psychological, emotional, and physical damage

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Speaker 2: Combs has inflicted. Finally, the US attorneys remind the judge

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Speaker 2: Combs is not the victim and the court should focus

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Speaker 2: on the very real effects Comb's conduct had on the

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Speaker 2: lives of actual victims. The court is still receiving letters

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Speaker 2: of support and opposition from those close to the case,

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Speaker 2: several incoming letters from Comb's fellow inmates. Now his students listen.

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Speaker 3: Colmbs has now offered a six week class free game

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Speaker 3: with Ditty. Combs is teaching the power of positive thinking,

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Speaker 3: dealing with failure, goal setting, and other business strategies. The

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Speaker 3: syllabus says the course offers exclusive insights into the journey

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Speaker 3: of Sean Diddycomb's tracing his rise from humble beginnings to

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Speaker 3: a globally recognized icon. In mays say, Comb's has done

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Speaker 3: magical things for them, teaching them discipline and consistency, inspiring

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Speaker 3: them to change their views on life, and getting them

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Speaker 3: to focus on bettering themselves.

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Speaker 1: Comb's students fawn over his teachings in letters to the judge. Quote,

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Speaker 1: I know by applying myself in this class, it will

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Speaker 1: help me become self aware of my negative behavior unquote.

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Speaker 1: Another right's Comb taught him to always hold himself accountable,

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Speaker 1: to have self discipline, and to always be consistent in

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Speaker 1: his actions. A third says, based on Comb's teachings, the

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Speaker 1: rap muggul deserves his freedom, adding the Combs isn't made

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Speaker 1: for the MDC.

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Speaker 2: While Combs has requested to address the court in person,

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Speaker 2: he also submitted a letter to Judge Sue Romonian reflecting

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Speaker 2: on his criminal past. Combs admits he was shocked to

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Speaker 2: learn how Jane is a Noonmos his ex girlfriend really

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Speaker 2: felt about their relationship, and blames his downfall on his

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Speaker 2: selfishness sadness. In life of Excess, Combs claims he sometimes

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Speaker 2: believed he would be better off dead. When confronting the

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Speaker 2: harm he has caused, Combs begs the judge for mercy,

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Speaker 2: asking Supermanian not to make an example of him with

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Speaker 2: a stiff sentence, but to make him an example of

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Speaker 2: what a person can do with a second chance. In

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Speaker 2: the same breath that Combs takes full accountability and responsibility

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Speaker 2: for his past wrongdoings, he complains about the conditions at

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Speaker 2: the MDC, calling his incarceration inhumane though he has no

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Speaker 2: one to blame for it but himself. Combs argues he

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Speaker 2: has been sufficiently punished for his crimes. While ex girlfriend

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Speaker 2: Gina Huen, the prosecution's missing victim three, has written a

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Speaker 2: support letter claiming Combs never victimized her and deserves leniency,

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Speaker 2: Several others have voiced harsh disagreement.

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Speaker 3: Several Combs's victims have written to the court urging against

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Speaker 3: leniency for the rap. Mogul Cassie and her parents assist

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Speaker 3: since Mia and Capricorn Clark, stylist Deontae Nash, and personal

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Speaker 3: chef Jordan Atkinson have all implored the judge to consider

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Speaker 3: their safety the full measure of Combs's harm and Combs's

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Speaker 3: troubling lack of accountability as he hands down a.

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Speaker 1: Sentence, Cassie bends an emotional three page letter to Judge Subermonium,

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Speaker 1: recalling that the entire world watch footage of Colmb's kicking

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Speaker 1: and beating her as she tried to run away from

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Speaker 1: a freak off. Cassie says though defense attorneys called her

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Speaker 1: relationship with Colmb's a great modern love story, nothing could

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Speaker 1: be further from the truth. It was a horrific decade

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Speaker 1: stained by abuse, violence for sex, and degradation from which

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Speaker 1: she still suffers horrific nightmares and flashbacks that require psychological care.

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Speaker 2: Cassie writes that if Sean Combs walks from the NDC

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Speaker 2: in less than a month, his first action will be

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Speaker 2: swift retribution against her and all those who spoke up

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Speaker 2: about his abuse. At trial, Cassie says she has real

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Speaker 2: fear for her family's safety. Moved out of New York

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Speaker 2: for their protection. Cassie insists the Colms she knows, the manipulator,

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Speaker 2: the aggressor, the abuser, the trafficker, is still who he

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Speaker 2: is today and he has no interest in changing or

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Speaker 2: becoming better. Other witnesses also wrote in Jordan.

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Speaker 1: Atkinson tells the judge she has serious fears for the

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Speaker 1: safety of everyone who acted as a witness in the

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Speaker 1: federal case. Atkinson writes, I know Sean Combs to be

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Speaker 1: a very dangerous and spiteful man with a long memory

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Speaker 1: and a panache for payback. Atkinson calls Combs a master

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Speaker 1: manipulator and says she does not believe he can ever

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Speaker 1: be rehabilitated, even calling for Combs to be banished to

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Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere after serving the maximum sentence for

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Speaker 1: each conviction.

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Speaker 2: Comb's former assistant, Mia writes about the impact of the

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Speaker 2: years of abuse she suffered from Combs and reliving it

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Speaker 2: all on the stand. Mia comments on the leak of

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Speaker 2: her true identity, saying her name is no longer her

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Speaker 2: own and will forever be linked to her abuser. Mia

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Speaker 2: asks the judge to deliver a senti that reflects the

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Speaker 2: full measure of harm that he has caused the years

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Speaker 2: of coercion, financial abuse, humiliation in both physical and sexual violence.

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Speaker 2: Mia requests she be allowed to deliver her impact statement

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Speaker 2: in the court room. Colmb's defense team staunchly opposes mea

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Speaker 2: providing a victim impact statement in open court mark Agnifhilo

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Speaker 2: insists that Mia is not a victim of anything in

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Speaker 2: her entire testimony at trial as an outright lie down

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Speaker 2: to her voice and demeanor on the stand. Prosecutors concede

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Speaker 2: that Mia is not a victim of the crimes alleged

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Speaker 2: in Comb's convictions, but Judge Supermanian allows the statement, pointing

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Speaker 2: out the defense will have a fair opportunity to respond.

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Speaker 2: It's unclear if any other victims plan to speak at

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Speaker 2: the hearing, or if the court will only be hearing

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Speaker 2: from Comb's and Mia. Both prosecutors and the defense will

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Speaker 2: have a chance to argue for their proposed sentence. Defense

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Speaker 2: attorneys plan to show the court a fifteen minute video

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Speaker 2: in support of Combe's release in roughly a month's time.

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Speaker 2: While Judge Subermanian will take all arguments into consideration, the

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Speaker 2: decision lies solely with him. For the latest crime and

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