| US
Files 69 Pages
Opposing Sean
Combs Appeal
Says Even If 1AM
Sentence Was OK
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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Substack SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 20 – 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
Engaged In
First
Amendment
Activity" - 69
page brief on
Patreon here On February 20 the US
Attorney's
Office filed
its own 69
responsive
briefing,
arguing at the
end that "Even
If Combs’s
Conduct
Implicated the
First
Amendment, His
Convictions Do
Not Violate
It" - full 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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Saturday, March 7, 2026
US Files 69 Pages Opposing Sean Combs Appeal Says Even If 1AM Sentence Was OK
