Oh yeah, forgot about the pardon as it somehow hasn’t happened yet. Diddy’s best money is spent on some nice plushy cell, paying the $50 (as if) to Trump and then getting out.
How much does it cost to buy a pardon for Trump? I thought Diddy had over a billion dollars at his peak. Trump could probably offer a pardon for $10 million or so.
In the U.S., there is, generally, a distinction between a jail and a prison. Generally speaking, jails are where accused people are held pending trial (or after conviction, but before sentencing). and bail is a system which allows one to await trial while not sitting in a jail cell. (Jails may also be used for short-term imprisonment for those convicted of more minor offenses for which the sentence is actual time served, rather than a fine or probation.)
Prisons, on the other hand, are where convicted people are sent to serve their sentences once they have been convicted and sentenced.
While Combs was awaiting trial, he attempted to be freed on bail, but was rejected three times before the trial, and was also denied bail after his conviction in July, while he was awaiting sentencing.
Combs is now a convicted, sentenced felon, and the sentence which has been handed down is to serve 50 months in a prison. He can, and will appeal, but it is a rare thing for a convicted felon to be allowed to remain free while appealing a conviction; nearly always, they will be serving time while appeals play out.
Rarely, if ever, would that happen.
So pardon it will be. Maybe not so immediate - he needs a good time to attack the Eastern District and Biden appointees. No idea if or how much cash will be involved.
I was surprised when he pardoned Ross Ulbricht (Dread Pirate of Dark-web drug deals) who was in Supermax for life. Maybe he did it just to blow off what was a pretty thorough FBI case. And, how would I know for sure, yet I’ve heard the Dark Web is still a thing.
You are not supposed to. I have often wondered about OJ Simpson, though. He ended up in prison for a pretty long time years after his acquittal for nuder, which we now know he definitely did do.
Was the judge extra harsh on OJ as a punishment for the murder he got away with? Or was his sentence reasonable?
If that was really his first (convicted) offense I’d say his “How I’d have done it” book was thrown at him. Of course armed robbery and kidnapping (for ordering nobody to leave) are very serious, yet certainly the total time he was sentenced to - 33 years - doesn’t seem like a first time offender. Yet on good behavior he was eligible for parole in 9 years and got it.
The judge of course couldn’t say the murder case was a consideration, yet it’s reasonable to think the screws were tightened for Simpson as his cohorts all ended up with probation (one got it on appeal).
ETA: He did have a few fairly minor post-murder offenses and they could easily have figured into sentencing in a more public manner.
Yeah, I really think they violated his rights, though. At least in the way most people are treated in court. Do I want OJ locked up forever? Yes. Do I want an aquited person given more severe sentencing because we know they were actually guilty? No.
I don’t doubt he did it, but has something come up recently that establishes he “definitely did it?”
The severity of Diddy’s sentence depends on where he goes. He’s requested Fort Dix. It has a RDAP, Residential Drug Abuse Program.
There are much harsher facilities that he could serve his sentence.
I think a extended drug treatment program would make it less likely that he’d return to his old lifestyle. There’s no guarantee but only throwing him into a cell isn’t going to change anything.
The evidence that OJ was the murderer is beyond reasonable doubt. Not beyond all conceivable doubt, but all reasonable.
Yeah with OJ the prosecutors made some huge mistakes: The glove not quite fitting, Fuhrman taking the fifth when asked if he’d planted evidence. There was enough to reasonably have reasonable doubt. Don’t recall if it was only one juror of if it took days for the jurors.
If there was any DNA evidence, that sort of thing was in its infancy. I would say the glove mishap and Fuhrman were huge liabilities.
Dershowitz, one of OJ’s lawyers wrote that a big problem with Diddy’s sentencing was he’d announced some appearance next week.