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Hearing today weighs timeline for Sean 'Diddy' Combs sentencing | Crime Alert 6AM 07.08.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime or hourly update, Breaking crime news. Now we are
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  Speaker 1: on Ditty Watch. That's right, the claw is ticking it down.
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  Speaker 1: What do we expect to go down? In the courtroom?
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Ditty's court appearance will be virtual later today a
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  Speaker 2: remote hearing before Judge A Ruined Subremerian. This procedural session
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  Speaker 2: is slated to begin at two pm Eastern and will
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  Speaker 2: determine whether combs sentencing, currently scheduled for October three, can
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  Speaker 2: be expedited. The fifty five year old Combs remains detained
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  Speaker 2: at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being convicted
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  Speaker 2: last week on two federal counts under the Man Act
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  Speaker 2: for transporting individuals across state lines for prostitution. He was
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  Speaker 2: acquitted of racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking charges, avoiding potential
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  Speaker 2: life sentences, but he still could face decades behind bars.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors plan to seek a sentence of fifty one to
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  Speaker 2: sixty three months, citing his mind in history, while the
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  Speaker 2: defense aims for twenty one to twenty seven months and
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  Speaker 2: argues for bail pending sentencing. In a letter to the court,
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  Speaker 2: Comb's attorney says he wouldn't contact sex workers if released.
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  Speaker 2: And proposed a one million dollar bond, home confinement, travel restrictions,
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  Speaker 2: passport surrender, and drug testing. But prosecutors oppose bail, calling
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  Speaker 2: Combs a danger in flight risk. They point to his
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  Speaker 2: quote extraordinary temper and pass violent conduct, including assaulting former
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  Speaker 2: partner Cassandra Cassie Ventura and a twenty twenty four incident,
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  Speaker 2: asserting that clear and convincing evidence supports continued detention. Colmbs
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  Speaker 2: has already spent ten months in custody since his arrest
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  Speaker 2: in September twenty twenty four. If sentenced to the defense
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  Speaker 2: recommended twenty one to twenty four months time served could
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  Speaker 2: significantly reduce or eliminate additional prison time. Today conference will
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  Speaker 2: also outline the pre sentencing process, including a Probation Office
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  Speaker 2: interview and submission of sentencing memoranda. For Combs. It could
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  Speaker 2: mark a turning point between months longer in detention or
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  Speaker 2: a potentially earlier release ahead of his October sentencing.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you more Criming Justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: A gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire Monday
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  Speaker 2: morning at a US Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: injuring a police officer before he was shot. And killed
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  Speaker 2: by federal agents. Authorities have identified the shooter as Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Luis Moscada, McCallan Police Chief Victor Rodriguez Sez. Muscada fired
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  Speaker 2: dozens of rounds at agents and the building while wearing
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  Speaker 2: a utility vest. After he was killed, law enforcement discovered
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  Speaker 2: more weapons and munitions and backpacks he'd brought to the scene.
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  Speaker 2: Responding McAllan police officer, a ten year veteran, was struck
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  Speaker 2: in the knee. It's still unclear if the injury came
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  Speaker 2: from a bullet or shrapnel. Police say Miskada had ties
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  Speaker 2: to a Michigan address, but was reported missing from West Loca, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: about an hour before the shooting. West Loka is roughly
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  Speaker 2: twenty miles from the Border Patrol building. Investigators also recovered
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  Speaker 2: Moscado's white two door sedan marked with letters, possibly in Latin,
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  Speaker 2: on the driver's side door. Police say it's not yet
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  Speaker 2: known what the markings mean or whether they point to
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  Speaker 2: a motive. Chief Rodriguez says there's no ongoing threat to
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  Speaker 2: the public. The FBI is leading the investigation into why
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  Speaker 2: Miskada carried out the attack and whether anyone else was involved.
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  Speaker 2: Three people are dead and ten others heard after gunfire
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  Speaker 2: erupted at early Monday in South Philadelphia. Police say the
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  Speaker 2: shooting broke out just before one am on a residential
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  Speaker 2: block in the Grace Ferry neighborhood. All three of those
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  Speaker 2: killed were adults. Among those wounded two juveniles. Police Commissioner
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Bethel told reporters that numerous rounds were fired on
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  Speaker 2: the street. Officers have taken one person with a weapon
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  Speaker 2: into custody. Commissioner Bethel added that police had already been
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  Speaker 2: called to the same block late Saturday night into early
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning, and arrest were made at that time, but
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  Speaker 2: what triggered Monday morning's violence remains unclear. Bethel called the
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  Speaker 2: shooters coward wanna be thugs. The deadly incident comes after
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  Speaker 2: a violent Fourth of July weekend in the city and
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  Speaker 2: across the country, including at least eight people shot near
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  Speaker 2: a South Philadelphia nightclub. Police say the investigation into this
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  Speaker 2: latest shooting is still ongoing. Alabama has scheduled a September
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  Speaker 2: execution using nitrogen gas for a death row inmate convicted
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  Speaker 2: more than two decades ago. Governor k Ivy has set
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  Speaker 2: September twenty fifth as the execution date for nine year
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  Speaker 2: old Jeffrey Todd West. West was sentenced to death for
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety seven killing of Margaret Parrish Barry, a
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  Speaker 2: thirty three year old convenience store clerk. Prosecutor said West
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  Speaker 2: drove to Harold Chevrolet in Atala, where he once worked,
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  Speaker 2: planning to rob the store. Barry was shot in the
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  Speaker 2: back of the head while lying behind the counter. About
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty dollars was stolen from a cookie
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  Speaker 2: can used to store the cash. A jury convicted West
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  Speaker 2: of capital murder and recommended a death sentence by tend
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  Speaker 2: to vote. Attawa County Circuit Judge William Cardwell formally imposed
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  Speaker 2: the sentence in nineteen ninety nine, calling the shooting clearly
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  Speaker 2: deliberate and intentional, carried out execution style. West's girlfriend was
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  Speaker 2: also charged in the case. She pleaded guilty and received
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  Speaker 2: a thirty five year prison sentence. Alabama last year became
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  Speaker 2: the first state to use nitrogen gas as an execution method,
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  Speaker 2: pumping nitrogen through a face mask to cut off oxygen.
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  Speaker 2: Since then, the method has been used in six executions,
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  Speaker 2: five in Alabama and one in Louisiana. Another nitrogen execution
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  Speaker 2: in Alabama is scheduled for August. West chose nitrogen after
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  Speaker 2: lawmakers approved it, even before the state had finalized procedures
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  Speaker 2: With this crime alert, I'm Jackie Howard.