Sean Combs plays the "I'm a CHANGED MAN after my time behind bars, give me a LIGHT SENTENCE" card

[Miles Archer]

Sean 'Diddy' Combs Apologizes For Crimes, Violence And Asks Judge For Light Sentence
The media mogul insisted that he is a changed man from the time he spent at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sean-diddy-combs-apology-sentence-judge_n_68df0591e4b061291b144aa3?origin=home-latest-news-unit

Sean “Diddy” Combs apologized for his crimes and misdeeds in a letter to a judge on Thursday, where he pleaded for a merciful sentence.

In the letter, obtained by HuffPost, the media mogul insisted that he has become a changed man after spending time at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, where he has been detained since September 2024.

“First and foremost, I want to apologize and say how sincerely sorry I am for all of the hurt and pain that I have caused others by my conduct. I take full responsibility and accountability for my past wrongs. This has been the hardest 2 years of my life, and I have no one to blame for my current reality and situation but myself,” Combs’ letter read.

He then brought up his ex, singer-songwriter Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, with whom he had been together for roughly a decade. Ventura filed a groundbreaking and quickly settled lawsuit accusing Combs of rape and abuse in November 2023, paving the way for a litany of other accusers to come forward and lead to his eventual indictment and trial. Combs was also captured on surveillance video footage abusing Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway.

[Coldwater]

1. Combs attorneys are asking for time served or 14 months

[Prairie Gates]

2. What is the standard sentence for the crimes he was convicted of?

Not the crimes people wanted him to be convicted of, but the actual offenses he was found guilt of by the jury?

I'm honestly curious.

[Coldwater]

4. There are Federal sentencing guidelines

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70-87 months, but that's exactly what they are guidelines, which is why there is much debate going on.

Will he receive time served
0-5 year sentence
5-10 years

It's up to the judge to weigh the arguments on both sides.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. He's going to get a few years

At least.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. 50 months

So 3 more years as he’s been in for 14 months already.

[Vinca]

6. Wonder how much his pardon will cost him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. MaddowBlog-Asked about a possible pardon for Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Trump says the quiet part loud

Does the president base his pardon decisions on whether criminals are aligned with him personally? It was weird to see him effectively concede the point.

Asked about a possible pardon for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Trump says the quiet part loud www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— @jimrissmiller.bsky.social 2025-10-03T21:40:14.779Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/asked-possible-pardon-sean-diddy-combs-trump-says-quiet-part-loud-rcna222970

The hip-hop titan was recently acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking at his federal trial but was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. It’s against this backdrop that there’s been considerable speculation of late about whether Combs might receive a presidential pardon. With this in mind, NBC News reported:

Trump said during tonight’s [Friday’s] Newsmax interview that he was unlikely to pardon Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, saying that the musician who was convicted on two counts during his federal sexual abuse trial was ‘very hostile’ during Trump’s presidential campaign. ‘I was very friendly with him. I got along with him great, and he seemed like a nice guy. I didn’t know him well, but when I ran for office, he was very hostile,’ Trump said during the interview.

....As the interview progressed, Trump focused not on the case, the allegations or the factual details, but rather on his personal feelings about his own ego..

“We don’t like to have things cloud our judgment, right? But when you knew someone, and you were fine, and then you run for office, and he made some terrible statements,” Trump told Newsmax. “So I don’t know, it’s more difficult. It makes it more — I’m being honest, it makes it more difficult to do.”

Trump on pardoning Diddy: "Probably -- hmm. You know, I was very friendly with him. I get along with him great. Seemed like a nice guy. I didn't know him well. But when I ran for office, he was very hostile."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-02T00:14:14.179Z

.....To recap, over the course of a single interview, the president said a pardon for Combs probably won’t happen because the entertainment mogul was “hostile” during his campaign for president, while a pardon for Santos is on the table because the disgraced former congressman “was 100% for Trump” and a “solid” partisan vote for the White House.

Trump’s critics have long argued that the president is basing his pardon decisions on whether convicted criminals are aligned with him personally, and this was a rare instance in which Trump all but admitted to a national television audience that his critics are correct......

The president seems eager to act with impunity, confident in the knowledge that a Republican-led Congress will shrug its shoulders with indifference; Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have already said Trump’s office effectively puts him above the law; evidence of corruption doesn’t seem to have an appreciable impact on his approval rating; and news organizations have to divide their coverage between this and a wide variety of other presidential abuses.

The result is a dynamic in which Trump is effectively declaring, “I’m handing out pardons like party favors to my political allies, because they’re my political allies, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”