Diddy Seeks Immediate Release From Prison In Latest Appeal |

Give up? Not Diddy! Lawyers for Sean Combs urged a federal appeals courtroom in New York late Tuesday (Dec.23) to order his fast launch from jail. The newest attraction additionally requested the courtroom to reverse his conviction on prostitution-related expenses or direct his trial choose to lighten his four-year sentence.

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Diddy Takes Aim At Trial Judge In Appeal

Diddy’s legal professionals acknowledged in a submitting with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that his trial choose, Arun Subramanian, handled him harshly at sentencing. The paperwork claims Judge Subramanian allowed proof associated to his acquitted expenses to unjustly affect the punishment.

Sean Combs is locked up at a federal jail in New Jersey and scheduled for launch in May 2028. He was acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking at a trial that resulted in July. A jury convicted Diddy below the Mann Act, which bans transporting folks throughout state traces for any sexual crime.

Lawyers for Combs stated Judge Arun Subramanian acted like a “thirteenth juror” in October when he sentenced Combs to 4 years and two months in jail. They stated the choose slipped by letting proof surrounding the acquitted expenses affect the sentence he imposed.

What Is Combs Seeking?

Additionally, the legal professionals famous that Diddy was convicted of two lesser counts, prostitution offenses that didn’t require drive, fraud, or coercion. They requested the appeals courtroom, which has not but heard oral arguments, to acquit Sean Combs, order his fast launch from jail or direct Subramanian to cut back his sentence.

“Defendants usually get sentenced to lower than 15 months for these offenses — even when coercion, which the jury didn’t discover right here, is concerned,” the legal professionals wrote.

Furthermore, the legal professionals wrote: “The choose defied the jury’s verdict and located Combs ‘coerced,’ ‘exploited,’ and ‘compelled’ his girlfriends to have intercourse and led a legal conspiracy. These judicial findings trumped the decision and led to the best sentence ever imposed for any remotely comparable defendant.”

What Did Judge Arun Subramanian Say At Sentencing?

At sentencing, Judge Subramanian stated that when calculating the jail time period, he thought of Diddy’s therapy of two former girlfriends. The girls testified that the Bad Boy Records founder beat them and coerced them into having intercourse with male intercourse employees whereas he watched and filmed the encounters, typically masturbating.

To recap, on the trial, former girlfriend Cassie testified that Combs ordered her to have “disgusting” intercourse with strangers hundreds of times throughout their decade-long relationship that resulted in 2018. Jurors noticed video of him dragging and beating her in a Los Angeles lodge hallway after one such multi-day “freak-off.”

The second former girlfriend testified below the pseudonym Jane. She stated she was pressured into intercourse with male employees throughout what Combs referred to as “lodge nights.” Those nights included drug-fueled sexual encounters from 2021 to 2024 that additionally may final days.

At sentencing, Subramanian stated he “rejects the protection’s try to characterize what occurred right here as merely intimate, consensual experiences, or only a intercourse, medication, and rock ‘n’ roll story.” He added:

“You abused the facility and management that you simply had over the lives of ladies you professed to like dearly. You abused them bodily, emotionally, and psychologically. And you used that abuse to get your manner, particularly when it got here to freak-offs and lodge nights.”