Sean '
Diddy
' Combs will stay in jail after judge refuses bail
appeal
But the judge hearing
Wednesday's arguments
did not agree to the proposal.
“My
bigger
concern deals with the danger of obstruction of justice and the danger of witness tampering,"
Judge Andrew
Carter said. "That is a real concern that I have here.”
Mr Combs's lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, told reporters the ruling "
did not go our way,
"
A
14-page indictment charges
Mr Combs with racketeering, sex trafficking by force and transportation to engage in prostitution.
If convicted on all three counts, the rapper and record producer faces a sentence of
15 years up to life in prison.
US Magistrate Judge
Robyn Tarnofsky
on Tuesday how he wished to plead, Mr Combs stood up and said: "not guilty"
Mr Agnifilo said
afterwards
that the musician's defence team already had launched an appeal of the judge's bail decision.
"We believe him
wholeheartedly
," Mr Agnifilo told reporters outside the Manhattan court of his client. "He didn't do these things."
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