Sean “Diddy” Combs has asked a judge to throw away his guilty statements about prostitution -related counts or to give him a new process, saying that such convictions are without precedent.
“This conviction is alone, but it should not be out at all,” said the Wednesday application.
Combs' lawyers claim that his two crime judgments were a unique wrong application of the Federal Mann Act, which prohibits Interstate Trade with regard to prostitution,
“As far as we know, Mr. Combs is the only person ever convicted of violating the status for behavior as this,” said a Wednesday application from Combs Legal Team.
Combs, 55, was convicted in a federal court in New York with two counts of transport to enter into prostitution for flying people throughout the country, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, for sexual encounters, while he was acquitted of more serious charges. He was able to get to prison for a decade during his conviction before 3 October.
His lawyers argued that none of the elements that are normally used for Mann ACT verdicts, including benefit from sex work or coercion, were present here.
“It is undisputed that he did not have a commercial motive and that all involved were adults,” said the submission. “The men chose to travel voluntarily and participate in the activity. The verdict confirms that the women were not or are being exploited or traded or sexually abused.”
The lawyers said that combs, “at most, paid to participate in voyeurism as part of a” swingers “lifestyle” and argued that “no” prostitution “is under a correctly limited definition of the legal term.”
Combs was acquitted of racketeering-samberry and sex trade, charges could have placed one of the celebrated figures of hip-hop for life.
The new motion asks Judge Arun Subramanian to leave the jury's verdict, or to order a new process whose evidence is limited to matters related to the Mann ACT raids, due to “serious overflow advantage of belts of an inflammatory certificate” related to the more serious counts.
Prosecutors insisted during the eight-week process that Combs had forced two ex-girlfriends, threatened and sometimes forced to have sex with male sex workers to satisfy his sexual drives. They quoted several acts of violence that he performed against them as proof that they had no control.
A day before, the Combs team asked the judge to free him on a bond of $ 50 million while waiting in October after a jury had not guilty of the most serious federal charges he encountered earlier this month.
His lawyer argued that the conditions in the metropolitan detention center in Brooklyn are dangerous and noted that others were convicted of comparable prostitution -related crimes that were usually released before the conviction.
Subramanian previously denied a request that Combs was released on bail while waiting for conviction, with reference to a now notorious video of combs that defeated a former girlfriend and photos that show injuries to another ex-girlfriend.
The judge has not yet ruled this week's movements.
