<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/sean-diddy-combs" rel="" target="_blank" title='Sean "Diddy" Combs'><span>Sean "Diddy" Combs</span></a><span> will be sentenced in a hearing set to be held October 3.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Last week, Combs was found guilty on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution after an eight-week trial.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He faces up to ten years in prison on each count, though legal analysts predict he will get much less.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/milan-airport-man-dies-after-being-sucked-into-jet-engine-milan-bergamo-airport/e9f996ba-ff10-4842-b948-ee9fb6085886"><strong><span>Man dies at 'after being sucked into jet engine at airport'</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was acquitted of the more serious charges of which he was accused – racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After the verdict was announced last Wednesday, Judge Arun Subramanian had proposed scheduling the sentencing hearing for October 3, but was told by Combs' lawyers that they'd hoped to expedite the process.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ahead of a remote hearing on Tuesday, attorneys for Combs first proposed a date of September 22 for the sentencing hearing, but they later revised their proposal to October 3 in a subsequent letter to the judge shortly after.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/sean-diddy-combs-to-be-sentenced-october-3/40be5db0-81d5-45cd-8f41-478ebeffa380" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The first letter said the defence proposal was subject to consent from the probation office.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The second letter, which essentially backed off their push to expedite his sentencing, shifted the sentencing hearing back to its original date and said the probation office did not object to that schedule.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/camp-mystic-what-survivors-faced-in-terrifying-texas-floods/bcd62fe7-67cf-4d3e-a367-b254289460af"><strong><span>'We're floating': What survivors faced in terrifying Texas floods</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The attorneys and Combs dialled into the remote hearing, but it lasted less than a minute after Subramanian's deputy told the attorneys on the call that the judge would get back to them about their proposed date.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The music mogul has been in custody at the federal Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn since his arrest last September.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>During a bail hearing that followed the verdict last Wednesday, Combs' lawyers requested he be released on bail, arguing that he was not convicted of any violent offences.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The judge denied the request to release Combs on bail, telling Combs' attorney Marc Agnifilo that in his closing arguments he "full-throatedly … told the jury that there was violence here.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>And domestic violence is violence. And you said this is a case that did involve violence."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/russias-transportation-minister-found-dead-in-what-officials-say-was-an-apparent-suicide/75afba63-1975-4a2d-9011-c649bd36fdbf" rel="" target="_blank" title="Russia's transportation minister found dead in what officials say was an apparent suicide"><strong><span>Russia's transportation minister found dead in what officials say was an apparent suicide</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Combs received a standing ovation when he returned to the Metropolitan Detention Centre after the verdict in his federal criminal trial last week, according to his spokesperson.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prosecutors had accused Combs of leading a criminal enterprise in which he allegedly used threats, violence, forced labor, bribery and other crimes to coerce his former girlfriends Cassie Ventura and a woman who testified under a pseudonym Jane to engage in drug-fueled sex performances with male escorts called "Freak Offs" or "hotel nights."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Combs pleaded not guilty to the charges. His lawyers argued the so-called "Freak Offs" were consensual given his long-term relationships with both Ventura and Jane.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Combs also faces dozens of civil lawsuits, for which he has denied all wrongdoing.</span></div></div>