Quit? Not Diddy! Legal professionals for Sean Combs urged a federal appeals court docket in New York late Tuesday (Dec.23) to order his quick launch from jail. The newest enchantment additionally requested the court docket to reverse his conviction on prostitution-related prices or direct his trial choose to lighten his four-year sentence.
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Diddy Takes Goal At Trial Choose In Enchantment
Diddy’s legal professionals said in a submitting with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals in Manhattan that his trial choose, Arun Subramanian, handled him harshly at sentencing. The paperwork claims Choose Subramanian allowed proof associated to his acquitted prices to unjustly affect the punishment.
Sean Combs is locked up at a federal jail in New Jersey and scheduled for launch in Might 2028. He was acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking at a trial that led to July. A jury convicted Diddy below the Mann Act, which bans transporting individuals throughout state strains for any sexual crime.
Legal professionals for Combs stated Choose 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 prices affect the sentence he imposed.
What Is Combs Searching for?
Moreover, the legal professionals famous that Diddy was convicted of two lesser counts, prostitution offenses that didn’t require pressure, fraud, or coercion. They requested the appeals court docket, which has not but heard oral arguments, to acquit Sean Combs, order his quick 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.
Moreover, the legal professionals wrote: “The choose defied the jury’s verdict and located Combs ‘coerced,’ ‘exploited,’ and ‘pressured’ his girlfriends to have intercourse and led a felony conspiracy. These judicial findings trumped the decision and led to the very best sentence ever imposed for any remotely comparable defendant.”
What Did Choose Arun Subramanian Say At Sentencing?
At sentencing, Choose Subramanian stated that when calculating the jail time period, he thought of Diddy’s remedy of two former girlfriends. The ladies testified that the Dangerous Boy Information founder beat them and coerced them into having intercourse with male intercourse staff whereas he watched and filmed the encounters, generally masturbating.
To recap, on the trial, former girlfriend Cassie testified that Combs ordered her to have “disgusting” intercourse with strangers tons of of instances throughout their decade-long relationship that led to 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 staff throughout what Combs referred to as “lodge nights.” These nights included drug-fueled sexual encounters from 2021 to 2024 that additionally might 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 just had over the lives of girls you professed to like dearly. You abused them bodily, emotionally, and psychologically. And also you used that abuse to get your method, particularly when it got here to freak-offs and lodge nights.”
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Related Press writers Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister contributed to this report by way of AP Newsroom.
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