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 workforce filed an attraction Friday through which they level out a jury discovered Diddy not responsible of intercourse trafficking and RICO expenses … but Diddy obtained a sentence his attorneys say is roughly 4 occasions greater than regular for his prostitution-related Mann Act convictions.
Diddy’s attorneys blast his 50-month sentence as a “perversion of justice.”
They are saying the decide engaged in “acquitted conduct” sentencing — the follow of accelerating punishment primarily based on rejected allegations — which they insist has been criticized throughout the authorized panorama.
Diddy’s workforce needs an appeals courtroom to order Diddy’s “rapid launch and grant a judgment of acquittal or a minimum of vacate and remand for resentencing.”
As you already know … Diddy was acquitted on the key federal expenses he confronted final 12 months following a two-month-long trial. He was convicted on two counts of transportation for the aim of prostitution in July.
Months later, Choose Arun Subramanian sentenced Diddy to 50 months in jail … for which Diddy’s attorneys declare was him performing like a “thirteenth juror.”