Wednesday’s drama within the Sean “Diddy” Combs case prolonged to the courthouse hallway as effectively — the place members of the embattled rap mogul’s authorized staff rushed to assist a person having a seizure.
Instantly after Combs’ failed bid to get launched on bail Wednesday afternoon, the jailed hip-hop tycoon’s lead lawyer Marc Agnifilo left the Twenty sixth-floor courtroom in Manhattan federal courtroom and noticed a person collapse to the bottom, Agnifilo recalled to The Put up.
The veteran protection lawyer — who had been on his strategy to meet with Combs in a holding cell contained in the Decrease Manhattan courthouse — then straddled the ailing man, who was hitting his head on the marble flooring, and laid him on his facet in order that he wouldn’t choke on his tongue or vomit, he mentioned.
Agnifilo’s regulation associate Jacob Kaplan then positioned his backpack beneath the person’s head, whereas his daughter Sofia Agnifilo, who’s working for the agency as a paralegal, and a member of Combs’ household helped ensure that the person was respiratory and checked his pulse, the lawyer mentioned.
“I can’t think about a busier five-minute interval in my life,” Agnifilo mentioned Thursday. “I’m taking place to see Combs, every thing was so intense, and my thoughts was on the case, and I stroll out, and a person falls and is clearly seizing.”
“It appeared fairly dire. I used to be anxious about him,” Agnifilo added.
“I’ve simply handled a lot of seizures,” the lawyer additional defined. “I simply know precisely what to do as a result of I’ve handled this earlier than.”
After the person appeared to stabilize, Agnifilo mentioned he left the scene earlier than EMS employees arrived. Cameras caught the person being taken out of the courthouse on a stretcher minutes later.
The standing of the person was unclear.
The lawyer mentioned that he then briefly met with Combs earlier than strolling out with the remainder of the authorized staff to do a press convention with a throng of media.
Combs, 55, was convicted Wednesday morning of two prostitution counts, however acquitted of stiffer intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs after a two-month-trial that make clear his repeated beatings of his girlfriends, and his style for “freak-offs” — intercourse marathons with male escorts.
Agnifilo — who made the eyebrow-raising declare that Combs’ relationship with ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura was “type of an excellent trendy love story” regardless of her testimony that he beat her — additionally mentioned Thursday that he awakened in the midst of the night time earlier than the decision satisfied Combs would solely be convicted on the 2 lesser counts.
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He mentioned he texted his regulation associate Teny Geragos at 3 a.m. to begin making ready a bail utility — which might solely make sense if Combs have been to be discovered responsible on the decrease costs.
“I believed that he can be convicted on the Mann Act and acquitted of anything,” the lawyer claimed, referring to the authorized identify for the prostitution cost.
Combs faces as much as 10 years in jail on every of two counts at his October sentencing.
