November 4, 2025
U.S. Circuit Court docket Choose Beth Robinson granted the request and expects his attorneys to submit their temporary by Dec. 23
After requesting a speedy appeals course of, former Unhealthy Boy label proprietor Sean “Diddy” Combs was granted the request by a federal decide Nov. 3, shortly after the mogul was transferred to his most popular jail, FCI Fort Dix.
In response to NBC Information, the approval was given by U.S. Circuit Court docket Choose Beth Robinson, who sits on the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The decide set a schedule for the enchantment, with the protection anticipated to submit its temporary by Dec. 23 and the federal government handy in its temporary by Feb. 20, 2026. Diddy’s group should then reply earlier than March 13, 2026.
If all goes in accordance with plan, oral arguments might happen as early as April.
Within the paperwork filed final week by Diddy’s protection legal professional, Alexandra Shapiro, she said, “Sean’s enchantment will problem the unfair use of the Mann Act, an notorious statute with a sordid historical past, to prosecute him for intercourse with consenting adults.”
She additionally states that they plan to problem his conviction and sentencing on the prostitution costs. They argue that the counts shouldn’t apply as a result of he made no cash from transporting male escorts, claiming he solely employed them to watch his girlfriends.
The leisure mogul had been incarcerated since he was arrested in September 2024, after being accused of intercourse trafficking, working a prison enterprise, and transporting to have interaction in prostitution, and was housed on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn.
His anticipated launch date is Might 28, 2028. The switch to Fort Dix came about Oct. 30, on the request of his attorneys, so he can make the most of the power’s drug remedy program and be nearer to household.
The previous Unhealthy Boy label proprietor was convicted in July on two counts of transporting people to have interaction in prostitution below the Mann Act. He was acquitted of the extra severe racketeering costs. Choose Subramanian sentenced him on Oct. 3 to a 50-month jail time period, a $500,000 wonderful, and 5 years of supervised launch.
Information Nation reported that Diddy was seen at Fort Dix, hanging out with former NBA participant Sebastian Telfair, who hails from Brooklyn and performed 11 seasons within the league.
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