According to TMZ.com, Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are arguing his sentence is far too harsh. The celebrity news and gossip site says Combs’ team is accusing the judge in a new legal filing of punishing him for crimes for which he was acquitted.
An appeal was filed on Friday that points out a jury found Combs not guilty of sex trafficking and RICO charges. His lawyers claim he received a sentence that is roughly four times higher than normal for his prostitution-related Mann Act convictions.
Combs’ lawyers say that his 50-month sentence as a “perversion of justice.”
They say the judge engaged in “acquitted conduct” sentencing – the practice of increasing punishment based on rejected allegations – which they insist has been criticized across the legal landscape.
Combs’ team wants an appeals court to order his “immediate release and grant a judgment of acquittal or at least vacate and remand for resentencing.”