Friday, December 26, 2025

Sean Combs Files 69 Page Appeal Brief Argues He Was Engaged in 1st Amendment Conduct


by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Dec 24 – At 12:26 am on September 29-20, 2025, the US Attorney's Office filed a sentencing memo on Sean Combs, asking for 135 months imprisonment on October 3. Memo on Patreon here.

Just over a year before at 4:30 pm on September 16, 2024 Inner City Press was told by its SDNY source to expect "the big one" - Sean Combs - the next day in an SDNY courtroom.

[Inner City Press published a first book / audio book Diddy Do It? on Sept 20 on Amazon here. Now sentencing book here.

On July 2 the jury came back with not guilty on RICO and sex trafficking, guilty on counts 3 and 5, transportation for prostitution.

On October 3 Inner City Press live tweeted the sentencing, 10 am to 5 pm, here, resulting in a 50 month sentence.

Then it published an ebook here, audiobook here

On October 20, notice of appeal was filed.

Late on December 23, Combs' legal team filed a 69 page appellate brief in the Second Circuit, arguing among other things that "Combs Was Engage In First Amendment Activity" - 69 page brief on Patreon here

more on X for Subscribers here and Substack here

The case is USA v. Combs, 1:24-cr-542 (Subramanian)

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