Diddy Appeals Conviction and Prison Sentence: Here’s What His Lawyers Will Likely Argue

Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs person officially filed the much-awaited paperwork to entreaty his condemnation and four-year situation condemnation for arranging cross-country prostitution events known arsenic “freak-offs.”

Combs was found guilty of interstate prostitution pursuing a sensational proceedings this summer, though jurors acquitted him of much superior sex-trafficking and racketeering charges. Judge Arun Subramanian handed down the disgraced rap mogul’s prison sentence connected Oct. 3.

Paperwork filed Monday (Oct. 20) indicates that Combs’ lawyers volition present combat some his condemnation and four-year condemnation earlier the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees ineligible challenges elevated from New York and surrounding states.

Monday’s tribunal filing is abbreviated and procedural, with arguments expected to beryllium fleshed retired successful appellate briefs implicit the coming months. But erstwhile statements by the Combs attorneys supply somewhat of a roadmap for their arguments successful the much-anticipated appeal.

According to ABC News, defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo told reporters aft the sentencing proceeding that a large absorption astatine the Second Circuit volition beryllium alleged acquitted conduct. This refers to the tricky interpretive question astir what, exactly, the assemblage signified erstwhile they recovered Combs blameworthy of immoderate counts but not blameworthy of others.

Specifically, the cardinal question present is whether jurors wholly rejected the thought that Combs’ girlfriends were coerced into having enactment with antheral escorts during freak-offs. To Combs’ lawyers, the reply is simply a resounding “yes”: In acquitting him of sex-trafficking, they say, the assemblage determined that these enactment marathons were wholly consensual.

Judge Subramanian indicated different during Combs’ sentencing hearing. The justice said Combs’ behaviour amounted to “subjugation” and that important situation clip was indispensable to “send a connection to abusers and victims alike that exploitation and unit against women is met with existent accountability.”

“What we consciousness happened contiguous was that the justice acted arsenic a 13th juror, and that helium second-guessed the jury,” Agnifilo told reporters afterward. “The jury’s verdict was resoundingly clear. There was nary enactment trafficking, determination was nary racketeering, everything was consensual, everything was adult, which is wherefore helium was convicted lone of the prostitution offense.”

Combs’ lawyers volition apt marque this aforesaid statement to the Second Circuit, urging the appeals tribunal to bid a shorter situation condemnation that much accurately reflects the jury’s partial acquittal.

In summation to arguing astir sentencing, the defence squad volition apt tackle the sufficiency of Combs’ prostitution condemnation itself. They’ve antecedently said Combs ne'er ...