Legal professionals for Sean “Diddy” Combs are arguing his sentence is much too harsh … accusing the decide in a brand new authorized submitting of punishing him for crimes for which he was acquitted.
The rapper’s authorized group filed an attraction Friday by which they level out a jury discovered Diddy not responsible of intercourse trafficking and RICO fees … but Diddy acquired a sentence his legal professionals say is roughly 4 occasions increased than regular for his prostitution-related Mann Act convictions.
Diddy’s legal professionals blast his 50-month sentence as a “perversion of justice.”
They are saying the decide engaged in “acquitted conduct” sentencing — the apply of accelerating punishment based mostly on rejected allegations — which they insist has been criticized throughout the authorized panorama.
Diddy’s group desires an appeals court docket to order Diddy’s “immediate release and grant a judgment of acquittal or at least vacate and remand for resentencing.”
As you recognize … Diddy was acquitted on the main federal fees he confronted final yr following a two-month-long trial. He was convicted on two counts of transportation for the aim of prostitution in July.
Months later, Decide Arun Subramanian sentenced Diddy to 50 months in jail … for which Diddy’s legal professionals declare was him appearing like a “thirteenth juror.”
