Sean “Diddy” Combs is trying to get out of prison before the new year.
The disgraced rapper filed a new appeal on Tuesday, demanding his conviction be overturned and that he be released from prison, according to docs obtained by Page Six.
In the appeal, Combs, 56, accuses Judge Arun Subramanian of acting like a “thirteenth juror” in the Revolt co-founder’s infamous sex trafficking trial.
Combs’ attorneys claim in the docs that the judge’s “draconian” 50-month sentence was based on the racketeering and sex trafficking charges Combs was acquitted of.
“The judge defied the jury’s verdict and found Combs ‘coerced,’ ‘exploited,’ and ‘forced’ his girlfriends to have sex and led a criminal conspiracy,” the filing reads.
“These judicial findings trumped the verdict and led to the highest sentence ever imposed for any remotely similar defendant — even though most others, unlike Combs, ran prostitution businesses that exploited poor or undocumented women or minors.”
The “Act Bad” rapper’s legal team says they believe the bulk of the government’s evidence from the trial “would have been irrelevant and inadmissible” if Combs was only charged with the two Mann Act counts he was convicted of.
“Yet the district court — determined to punish Combs for the acquitted counts — considered all that evidence anyway. It did not even follow its own proposed test,” the docs read.
Combs’ attorneys ask for the court to issue an “immediate release and either grant a judgment of acquittal or vacate and remand for resentencing.”
Page Six has reached out to the United States District Court Southern District of New York for comment on behalf of Judge Subramanian, but did not immediately hear back.
In July, Combs was found not guilty on two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and on racketeering conspiracy. However, he was convicted on two counts of transportation for prostitution.
Three months later, the “I’ll Be Missing You” emcee was sentenced to 50 months behind bars and was transferred from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, NY, to FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey.
Combs is set to be released from prison in June 2028.
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