根据周一提交给纽约联邦地方法院的一份通知,肖恩“吹牛老爹”库姆斯的律师打算对他的定罪和超过四年的刑期提出上诉。
在7月份为期8周的审判后,库姆斯被判犯有两项与卖淫有关的指控。陪审团宣布康姆斯面临的性交易和敲诈勒索指控不成立。
周一提交的文件没有解释库姆斯上诉的理由,但他的律师此前曾表示,定罪不应成立,因为以卖淫为目的的运输法规不适用。
这位音乐大亨的律师亚历山德拉·夏皮罗提交了上诉通知。
经过今年早些时候两个月的试验,库姆斯被判50个月监禁与卖淫有关的罪行,但他已经在布鲁克林的大都会拘留中心服刑一年,因此获得了减刑。
宣判时,康姆斯含泪道歉在法庭上,在为期两个月的审判结束时,34名控方证人提供了证词,他说,“我感到非常谦卑,心都碎了”。
联邦检察官认为他至少应该被判11年监禁,而他的辩护律师要求判14个月。
“在我的一生中,我犯了许多错误,但我不再逃避它们,”库姆斯说在信中写道宣判前监督他案子的法官。“我对我造成的伤害感到非常抱歉,但我知道仅仅说‘对不起’是不够的,因为这些话本身无法抹去过去的痛苦。”
今年7月,陪审团宣判库姆斯无罪,他面临的最严重的指控是敲诈勒索阴谋和性交易庆祝分裂的判决对每个陪审员说谢谢,然后转向他的家人说,“我要回家了,宝贝!我要回家了!”
库姆斯仍被关押在布鲁克林的大都会拘留中心。
Sean 'Diddy' Combs will appeal conviction and prison sentence
Sean “Diddy” Combs' lawyers intend to appeal his conviction and over four-year prison sentence, according to a notice filed Monday in the Federal District Court of New York.
Combs was convicted of two counts prostitution-related charges after an eight-week trial in July. The jury acquitted Combs of the sex trafficking and racketeering charges he faced.
The filing on Monday does not explain the grounds on which Combs will base his appeal, but his attorneys have previously argued the conviction should not stand because the statute, transportation for the purposes of prostitution, does not apply.
The music mogul's attorney Alexandra Shapiro filed the notice of appeal.
After a two month trial earlier this year, Combswas sentenced to 50 months in prisonfor offenses related to prostitution, but he gets credit for the year he has already served in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
At the sentencing, Combstearfully apologizedin court, saying, "I've been humbled and broken to my core," at the conclusion of the two month trial that featured testimony from 34 prosecution witnesses.
Federal prosecutors had argued that he deserved 11 years minimum in prison, while his defense attorneys asked for a sentence of 14 months.
"In my life, I have made many mistakes, but I am no longer running from them," Combswrote in a letterto the judge overseeing his case before the sentencing. "I am so sorry for the hurt that I caused, but I understand that the mere words "I'm sorry" will never be good enough as these words alone cannot erase the pain from the past."
In July, Combs was acquitted by the jury of the most serious charges he faced, racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, and hecelebrated the split verdictby mouthing thank you to each juror and turning to his family to say, "I'm coming home, baby! I'm coming home!"
Combs remains incarcerated at at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.