A three-judge panel heard arguments from Sean “Diddy’ Combs attorney that his sentence should be reduced, arguing that a lower court’s punishment factored in alleged crimes that he was acquitted of last year.
Combs was sentenced to four years in prison and a $500,000 fine after a jury convicted him of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He was acquitted of more serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.
The lesser charges that Combs was found guilty of related to “freak offs,” or sex parties that included sex workers.
Alexandra Shapiro, arguing for Combs, noted precedent that “district courts must specifically explain in arriving at their sentence, they must specifically consider … the jury’s acquittal when assessing the weight and quality of the evidence that the district court is relying on, and that did not happen here.”
She argued that U.S. District
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