The Second Circuit Court docket of Appeals has granted Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ unopposed movement to expedite his attraction.
The rapper’s first formal written argument (appellate transient) is due subsequent month, and arguments are tentatively on monitor for April.
Combs utilized for a fast attraction on the grounds that he could possibly be near getting out of jail by the point his case was heard if he was pressured to comply with the everyday, drawn-out argument timeline.
The disgraced music mogul is difficult each his July conviction and the ensuing four-year jail sentence for arranging the drug-fuelled intercourse marathons, referred to as “freak-offs”, between his girlfriends and male escorts.
Jurors discovered Combs responsible of unlawful prostitution, however they acquitted him of extra severe racketeering and sex-trafficking expenses.
The appeals process is mostly a sluggish one. Within the Second Circuit Court docket of Appeals, it usually takes as much as 18 months to get a prison attraction determined.
Combs’ attorneys will not have to attend that lengthy.
“An expedited briefing and argument schedule is vital to make sure that Mr Combs’s attraction of his sentence doesn’t develop into moot whereas the attraction is pending,” his lawyer Alexandra Shapiro argued.
Wednesday’s courtroom submitting confirmed prosecutors had already consented to the expedited briefing schedule.
