Billionaire song magnate Sean “Diddy” Combs may well be eligible to be prosecuted for allegedly abusing his female friend in Los Angeles in 2016 below a newly offered invoice into consideration within the California Legislature.
The invoice, whose creator is Sen. Susan Rubio (D-1st earl baldwin of bewdley Soil), would permit accusers as much as 15 years nearest an incident befell to press fees.
“This is the reason I fight so hard to educate and encourage people to see through the lens of a victim,” stated Rubio, who says she is a survivor of home violence.
Rubio in 2019 driven for a invoice to increase the statute of boundaries from 3 to two decades. Lawmakers ultimately indubitably to increase the past to 5 years. Now Rubio is making any other try, thru Senate Invoice 690, to increase it to fifteen years.
For Rubio, 5 years is “not good enough.”
Her remarks come within the life nearest aggravating surveillance photos surfaced that displays Combs bodily abusing his former female friend in a Los Angeles resort in 2016. Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, a singer who dated Combs for 11 years, filed a lawsuit towards him endmost generation.
The Los Angeles County district legal professional’s place of job known as the video “difficult to watch” in a remark following the leave of the video. Nonetheless, government stated they are able to’t pursue fees.
“If the conduct depicted occurred in 2016, unfortunately we would be unable to charge as the conduct would have occurred beyond the timeline where a crime of assault can be prosecuted,” the remark stated.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California stated it appreciates the objective of marketing justice for survivors of home violence however antagonistic the 2019 invoice.
“We fear that the extension proposed by this bill will both threaten defendants’ rights and remove the incentive for law enforcement and prosecutors to more swiftly address reports of domestic partner violence in the first instance,” it wrote.
Rubio stated if her invoice passes, Ventura would have the ability to press fees. The invoice these days is into consideration within the Meeting.
