Sean Combs, aka “Diddy” and “Puff Daddy”, may face zero prison time after being convicted on two of five charges in the bombshell New York sex trafficking case. Combs was facing up to life in prison if he was found guilty on serious charges of racketeering involving arson and human trafficking. The charges he was ultimately convicted on are Mann Act violations, which make it a felony offense to transport someone across state lines for the purposes of prostitution. This law is a Jim Crow relic which was often used to target black men who dated white women.
The first black heavyweight champion boxer in the United States was a black man named Jack Johnson. Shortly after the Mann Act was debuted in the early 1900s, Johnson was sentenced to a year in prison at Leavenworth. This imprisonment was seen as a way to discourage black men from engaging in any sort of relations with white women. Trump posthumously pardoned Johnson in 2018. It has been widely speculated that Trump may pardon Sean Combs if he was to serve prison time under the same act that he pardoned Jack Johnson for.
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Diddy trial verdict: Live updates, reactions, analysis
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial updates: ‘Diddy’ not guilty of racketeering in split verdict – ABC News
Live updates: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial verdict, acquitted of racketeering | CNN
Remarks by President Trump at Pardoning of John Arthur “Jack” Johnson – The White House
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