Diddy’s legal team could “possibly” be pushing for home confinement in the coming months, with attorney Marc Agnifilo arguing that his client’s therapy needs could be better met outside the prison system.
In a recent interview with TMZ's Harvey Levin, Agnifilo, who’s been all over headlines as of late, spoke at length about what he argues are the shortcomings of the Metropolitan Detention Center’s approach to anger and substance abuse programs. Per Agnifilo, Diddy has been “working very hard” on such issues.
“As you might remember, we got him into a batterers program even before he was arrested in the federal case,” Agnifilo said. “Frankly, I wish he had done that 30 years ago.”
Diddy’s sentencing is set for this October following a split verdict in his racketeering and trafficking case. As Complex’s Shawn Setaro previously broke down here, trying to predict where the final sentence will land is rife with complications.
But seeking home confinement instead of more time behind bars is indeed a possibility, though Agnifilo cautioned in his remarks to TMZ that the legal team’s sentencing memo hasn’t fully come together just yet.
“That is certainly an argument that I may make,” he said, as seen here. “I think I am certainly going to be asking the judge as a condition of his supervised release that he have appropriate counseling and therapy. I think he needs it. I think he thinks he needs it. And that’s the important part. What I think is really irrelevant. He believes that he needs this. He believes that this would make him a better person.”
Moving forward, Agnifilo added, Diddy has said that he’s going to “have the last chapters of my life be the best chapters of my life in all the ways that really matter.”
Earlier this week, Diddy was denied bail again as he awaits sentencing. The Bad Boy Records mogul’s lawyers had asked for their client to be released to his home in Miami, with his potential release strongly argued against by prosecutors.
In documents viewed by Complex in late July, prosecutors pointed to Diddy’s “extensive history of violence,’ arguing that he remains a danger and a flight risk.
