Sean 'Diddy" Combs' legal team drops push for expedited sentencing. Defense attorneys sought to expedite Combs' sentencing after his verdict last week, but indicated they conferred with federal prosecutors and agree on the original date proposed last week by Judge Subramanian. The decision was made yesterday, Tuesday (July 8) during a virtual quick hearing that was scheduled after Combs’ legal team requested an expedited hearing.

Sentencing date set for Sean “Diddy” Combs following his federal conviction, the disgraced rap mogul will learn his fate on Oct. 3, 2025, after being found guilty on two federal counts of transporting women across state lines for prostitution but being found not guilty on the more serious crimes that can carry up to life in prison, racketing and sex trafficking.

Combs' defense team is reportedly pushing for the minimum sentence of 21 to 27 months behind bars. The prosecution, on the other hand, says the sentencing guidelines call for 51 to 63 months and allegedly will likely seek an even longer sentence. Judge Subramanian previously noted the time Combs already spent in jail will count towards his final sentence. The native New Yorker and rap mogul has been jailed since his initial arrest last September and will remain behind bars until his sentencing.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs will be sentenced on October 3 in New York after a federal jury found him guilty on two counts of transporting individuals to engage in prostitution. As new civil suits are piling up, Diddy's male escorts are spilling the tea. Brian Kohberger's signed guilty plea is now public. A California man is behind bars after police say he tried to slip back into the country just days after the body of his missing ex-girlfriend was found. A former MTV 16 and Pregnant star is back in jail in Georgia, charged in a man's fentanyl death just weeks after losing her teenage son. An Indiana man is behind bars for murder after police say he hunted down and killed a sex offender who had been released from prison just weeks earlier for molesting his young family member. Drew Nelson reports.

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A Colorado husband and father arrested again in connection with the murder of his wife years after previous charges were dropped, a grand jury indicts Barry Morphew on first-degree murder.

In 2021, Morphew was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence after his wife, Suzanne, went missing on Mother's Day in 2020, but those charges were later dropped before his trial date and a year before Suzanne's remains were found.

Suzanne Morphew, 49, was last seen on Mother's Day, May 10, 2020, in Maysville, Colorado, after leaving her home for a bike ride. Later that evening, Suzanne's mountain bike is found near the home, and her helmet is found in a different location nearby a few days later.

A massive search for Suzanne spans over a three-year period until her remains are uncovered in a shallow grave in Saguache just a few hundred feet down a dirt road, the indictment states. An autopsy report states drugs typically used to tranquilize animals were found in her system.

Morphew was all smiles at his court appearance.

Join Nancy Grace to unfold what's next for Barry Morphew.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

• Tisha Leewaye- Friend of Suzanne Morphew
• Dr. Bethany Marshall – Psychoanalyst, Author: “Deal Breaker,” and featured in hit show “Paris in Love” on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLive
• Chris McDonough – Director At the Cold Case Foundation, Former Homicide Detective [worked over 300 Homicides in 25-year career], Trained the First Native American Homicide Task Force; Host of YouTube channel, “The Interview Room”
• Dr. Thomas Coyne – Chief Medical Examiner, District 2 Medical Examiner’s Office, State of Florida; Forensic Pathologist, Neuropathologist, Toxicologist; X: @DrTMCoyne
• Derek Smith - Criminal Defense Attorney, website: dwsmithlegal.com
• Dave Mack - Crime Stories Investigative Reporter

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ next court appearance will be virtual hearing and take place later today. This procedural session is slated to begin at 2 p.m. Eastern and will determine whether Combs’ sentencing—currently scheduled for October 3rd—can be expedited.

A gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire Monday morning at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas — injuring a police officer before he was shot and killed by federal agents.

Three people are dead, and ten others hurt after gunfire erupted early Monday in South Philadelphia.

Alabama has scheduled a September execution using nitrogen gas for a death row inmate convicted more than two decades ago.

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs, disgraced rap mogul, is denied bail after being acquitted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, the most serious charges against him that could have landed him life in prison, and found guilty only of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Judge Arun Subramanian set a tentative sentencing date of Oct. 3 but is considering the defense’s request for it to be sooner at a virtual hearing scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

Last week after 'Diddy's' verdict, Judge Subramanian ruled from the bench that Combs is a risk to public safety and must remain behind bars until his sentencing. The judge cites substantial evidence presented during the trial alleging Combs' violent history involving former partners and employees. “It is impossible for the defendant to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he poses no danger,” Subramanian said from the bench.

Unless the judge rules in favor of the defense, Combs will spend months awaiting sentencing at a notoriously understaffed and violent Brooklyn jail, where the music mogul has called home for nearly ten months. Many of Combs' victims wrote the court pleading for the rap mogul to remain behind bars in fear for their lives and safety.

Follow Crime Stories with Nancy Grace for the latest on Sean 'Diddy' Combs' court hearings.

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Recording artist R. Kelly is serving a 30-year sentence for his racketeering and sex trafficking conviction. In the last days, the Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on claims that prosecutors “stretched” the law in the convictions against him. The justices denied an appeal last month.

Now, Kelly wants to be released to home detention, claiming that federal authorities are plotting to kill Kelly in prison. A defense motion claims Kelly's former cellmate conspired with prison officials to steal mail between him and his attorneys and turn it over to prosecutors before his trial. Kelly's attorneys also claimed prison officials recruited a fellow prison inmate to kill Kelly to keep him from exposing the plot.

Joining Nancy Grace today:

• Lisa Van Allen - Victim, testified against R Kelly
• Brad M. Micklin, Esq - Lead Attorney and Managing Member, The Micklin Law Group, LLC (Nutley, NJ)
• Dr. Bethany Marshall- psychoanalyst
• Vincent Hill - Private Investigator, Author of "Playbook to a Murder"
• Robyn Walensky - Crime Stories Investigative Reporter

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Anjette and Ben Lyles are a young married couple with two children. Ben is a WW2 veteran and together he and Anjette work in his family restaurant in Macon, Georgia. When Ben sells the restaurant for below market value to settle a gambling debt, Anjette is furious. A few months after selling the restaurant, Ben gets very sick, very fast, and dies without doctors figuring out what killed him. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the death of Ben Lyles as well as Anjette's new husband, Buddy Gabbert, Anjette's first mother-in-law, Julia Lyles, and Anjette's daughter, Marcia. Joe explains how Anjette Lyles got away with murder, at first, and what led to her ultimate arrest, conviction, and death sentence.

Transcript Highlights

00:00.21 Introduction

02:09.23 Eating at Hospital cafeteria

05:02.11 Ben Lyles sells restaurant to settle gambling debt, Anjette is furious

06:45.30 Ben Lyles dies, doctors don't know why

09:21.66 Diagnosis by symptoms

14:43.53 Ben's mother worked at Restaurant

18:26.54 Anjette buys the restaurant

20:01.78 Anjette marries Buddy Gabbert

25:07.03 Doctors not looking for arsenic

30:08.42 Symptoms were miserable, Buddy dies

35:32.05 Anjette seen lighting black candle and talking to it

40:00.01 Coroner's Inquest

44:51.91 Coroner gets anonymous letter about Anjette using arsenic ant poison to kill

50:09.65 One month after Marcia dies, Anjette is arrested, charged with murder

51:25.26 Sentenced to death. Sentence commuted to life in prison

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