Celebrity Sean Diddy Combs is currently in federal prison, and his legal team is looking to expedite the appeals hearing on his conviction. The disgraced rapper’s lawyers want his appeals case to be heard early next year. Although he was convicted on two counts of interstate prostitution, Combs pleaded not guilty and maintains his innocence. 

According to papers filed on Wednesday, Sean Diddy’s team believe that his 50-month prison sentence should be reduced. ABC News reported that defense attorney Alexandra Shapiro has said that their team wants to fix the appeals schedule in April, when both sides can place their arguments before a judge. 

Shapiro also said, “Sean’s appeal will challenge the unfair use of the Mann Act, an infamous statute with a sordid history, to prosecute him for sex with consenting adults.”

Reports from NBC and ABC News say that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been officially transferred from Brooklyn’s Detention Center to New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix. He has been shifted to the New Jersey facility for better support for drug recovery.

His legal team had argued that FCI Fort Dix would provide for more “family visitation and rehabilitative efforts” as well as offer “educational and occupational programs.”

The Federal Bureau of Prisons online database mentions May 8, 2028, as Combs’s release date after he completes a 50-month term in custody. He may be released much earlier after attending the special drug treatment prison program that cuts short the prison term of inmates. If he wins the appeal case, he may even walk free sometime next year.

As reported earlier by CWEB and other news agencies the Bad Boy Records founder was found guilty on two counts related to prostitution, while he was declared not guilty of more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.