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The Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing Christian organization that purports to “affirm the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God,” has lent several of its attorneys to represent Chiles in the case.

He could face up to two decades behind bars, but his attorneys are battling for a more lenient sentence that could see Combs freed in a matter of weeks – or acquitted.

He said an attorney had warned him that The Times was doing a “smear article” and didn’t want plaintiffs like him receiving any money from the settlement.

The Los Angeles city attorney’s office said Wednesday in an email that prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against Cruz.

Following an investigation, 24 city and district attorneys across the state filed a civil enforcement action.