sean”Diddy“Combs smiled as he entered a New York courtroom for a bail hearing where he hoped to see him released from custody while he faces charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.

The 55-year-old blew kisses and waved to family members as he entered the Federal Courthouse in South Manhattan. He was dressed in a beige prison jumpsuit and flanked by U.S. marshals, but was not handcuffed, as he had been in previous hearings.

Family members and supporters, including his mother Janice Combs, daughter Chance Combs, son Justin Dior Combs and adopted son Quincy Brown, were in attendance at Friday afternoon’s hearing.

A judge delayed a decision on whether to grant him bail ahead of his upcoming trial after prosecutors argued he could not be “trusted” to walk out of jail and could not be controlled by his own lawyers.

The music mogul is being held on $50 million bond at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York while awaiting trial.

During the hearing, his lawyers cited changed circumstances, including new evidence, that they said made it reasonable to free him so he could better prepare for his trial, which is scheduled for May 5. Two judges previously found him to be a danger to the community and a flight risk.

Assistant District Attorney Christine Slavik said Combs’ efforts to reach witnesses behind bars, often through family members, showed he “cannot and will not follow the rules,” even when they were set by his own attorneys. “Put simply, the defendant cannot be trusted,” she said.

Slavik also accused the mogul’s lawyers of “allowing him to break the rules” and claimed they showed an “inability to control their client”.

Last week, prosecutors accused Combs of using jail cell phones to blackmail potential witnesses ahead of his trial. The music mogul allegedly called family members, urging them to approach potential victims and create “narratives” and made “relentless efforts” to “corruptly influence witness testimony,” court documents allege.

“The defendant has repeatedly shown — even while in custody — that he will blatantly and repeatedly break the rules to improperly affect the outcome of his case. The defendant has shown, in other words, that he cannot be trusted to follow the rules or conditions,” prosecutors wrote in a redacted filing.

Combs allegedly began his campaign as soon as he was incarcerated in September, prosecutors said.

In a filing Friday before the hearing, prosecutors wrote that it “strains credulity to believe that Combs will stop engaging in criminal behavior and abide by the conditions of his release.”

However, the mogul’s defense argued that if released, Combs would be living in “significantly more restrictive” conditions than he was currently in MDC. A “completely independent” security team would monitor Combs 24/7, his lawyers said, with contact allowed only to a counselor and a few family members.

Responding to Slavik’s concern that he would return to violent behavior if allowed out, defense attorney Marc Agnifilo said there was “a zero percent chance of that happening.”

Prosecutors emphasized that the security detail would be paid and therefore work for Combs.

Earlier this week, the judge ordered federal prosecutors to delete images of Combs’ handwritten notes that were taken during a search of his jail cell. The quotes in question referred to getting “dirt” on at least two potential witnesses.

His attorneys argued the notes were protected by attorney-client privilege and improperly seized. In an earlier filing, they described the seizure of personal items and documents as “outrageous government conduct amounting to a substantial violation of due process.”

Excerpts from those notes previously referred to by prosecutors were not used at Friday’s bond hearing following a judge’s order.

Combs, who founded Bad Boy Records, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with the help of a network of associates and employees while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping , arson and physical beatings.

He was arrested in September on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering federal prosecutors claiming that he and his associates threatened, he abused and coerced women and others around him “to fulfill his sexual desires” – which allegedly included forcing the victims to engage in recorded sexual activities, which he called “Freak Offs”.

Federal agents from US Homeland Security raided two of the rapper’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami on March 25 as part of an investigation into the allegations against him.

The judge is expected to make a decision on bail next week.