Overview
- Combs filed the appeal on March 13 in the Second Circuit seeking immediate release, a judgment of acquittal, or vacatur and resentencing.
- His lawyers contend Judge Arun Subramanian used disfavored 'acquitted conduct' to increase punishment for Mann Act convictions.
- The defense says the term is roughly four times typical sentences for similar Mann Act cases and calls it a 'perversion of justice.'
- A July 2025 jury convicted Combs on two transportation-for-prostitution counts and acquitted him of trafficking and racketeering before a 50-month sentence was imposed on October 3.
- Oral argument is scheduled for April 9, and Combs remains at FCI Fort Dix with a BOP-listed projected release date of April 25, 2028.