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Sean 'Diddy' Combs release date brought forward ahead of appeal

Sean 'Diddy' Combs release date brought forward ahead of appeal
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' prison sentence has been shortened.

The music mogul's release date has been moved up by 10 days, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, People magazine reports.

The adjustment comes several weeks after a previous shift shaved more than a month off his sentence. Combs is now expected to be released on 15 April, 2028.

Combs is currently serving a 50-month sentence after being convicted last summer on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Before his sentencing, Combs had already spent roughly a year in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre after being denied bail.

He is now incarcerated at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, about 40 miles outside Philadelphia. His attorneys requested the placement, pointing to its access to drug rehabilitation programmes and proximity to family. Combs has since been accepted into a drug-abuse rehabilitation program, which could help reduce his time behind bars with good behaviour credits.

Last December, the I'll Be Missing You singer's lawyers formally appealed his conviction and sentence, arguing that the sexual encounters at the centre of the case were consensual and that the trial judge imposed an overly harsh sentence.

On 20 February, federal prosecutors urged an appellate court to uphold both his conviction and sentence, arguing that Combs was a repeat and flagrant offender who used violence and threats to commit his crimes.

Combs' lawyers described his lengthy prison time as a "perversion of justice" in their appeal filing, arguing for "immediate release and a judgment of acquittal or at least vacate and remand for resentencing".

Oral arguments in the appeal are scheduled for 9 April.

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