{"id":9229,"date":"2025-12-24T23:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-seeks-immediate-release-from-prison-in-appeals-argument\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:38:39","slug":"diddy-seeks-immediate-release-from-prison-in-appeals-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-seeks-immediate-release-from-prison-in-appeals-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy Seeks Immediate Release From Prison in Appeals Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tLawyers for hip-hop mogul Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs urged a federal appeals court in New York late Tuesday (Dec. 23) to order his immediate release from prison and reverse his conviction on prostitution-related charges or direct his trial judge to lighten his four-year sentence.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawyers said in a filing with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that Combs was treated harshly at sentencing by a federal judge who let evidence surrounding charges he was acquitted of unjustly influence the punishment.<\/p>\n

\n\tCombs, 56, incarcerated at a federal prison in New Jersey and scheduled for release in May 2028, was acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking at a trial that ended in July. Combs was convicted under the Mann Act, which bans transporting people across state lines for any sexual crime.<\/p>\n

\n\tLawyers for Combs said Judge Arun Subramanian acted like a \u201cthirteenth juror\u201d in October when he sentenced Combs<\/a> to four years and two months in prison. They said he erred by letting evidence surrounding the acquitted charges influence the sentence he imposed.<\/p>\n

\n\tThey noted that Combs was convicted of two lesser counts, prostitution offenses that didn\u2019t require force, fraud, or coercion. They asked the appeals court, which has not yet heard oral arguments, to acquit Combs, order his immediate release from prison or direct Subramanian to reduce his sentence.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDefendants typically get sentenced to less than 15 months for these offenses \u2014 even when coercion, which the jury didn\u2019t find here, is involved,\u201d the lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe judge defied the jury\u2019s verdict and found Combs \u2018coerced,\u2019 \u2018exploited,\u2019 and \u2018forced\u2019 his girlfriends to have sex and led a criminal conspiracy. These judicial findings trumped the verdict and led to the highest sentence ever imposed for any remotely similar defendant,\u201d the lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt sentencing, Subramanian said that when calculating the prison term, he considered Combs\u2019 treatment of two former girlfriends who testified that the Bad Boy Records founder beat them and coerced them into having sex with male sex workers while he watched and filmed the encounters, sometimes masturbating.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the trial, former girlfriend Casandra \u201cCassie\u201d Ventura testified that Combs ordered her to have \u201cdisgusting\u201d sex with strangers hundreds of times during their decade-long relationship that ended in 2018. Jurors saw video of him dragging and beating her in a Los Angeles hotel hallway after one such multiday \u201cfreak-off.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe second former girlfriend, who testified under the pseudonym \u201c Jane,\u201d said she was pressured into sex with male workers during what Combs called \u201chotel nights,\u201d drug-fueled sexual encounters from 2021 to 2024 that also could last days.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt sentencing, Subramanian said he \u201crejects the defense\u2019s attempt to characterize what happened here as merely intimate, consensual experiences, or just a sex, drugs, and rock \u2018n\u2019 roll story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cYou abused the power and control that you had over the lives of women you professed to love dearly. You abused them physically, emotionally, and psychologically. And you used that abuse to get your way, especially when it came to freak-offs and hotel nights.\u201d<\/p>\n



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