Amy Robach
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They asked for his convictions to be overturned.
And if the three-judge panel didn't want to go so far as to do that, they've at least asked for them to rule that his sentencing should be revisited because it was the harshest sentencing ever given to a...
I guess, a client or a person facing similar charges with a similar criminal history.
I was looking for the right word.
It didn't come to me, but maybe it was very appropriate.
Yes, so it's interesting.
We're trying to read the tea leaves because obviously we don't have a ruling or a judgment yet from the judges, but we did get some of the questions they were asking and some of the responses they were looking for.
And in some moments, it did feel or appear as though they were definitely considering
significantly what Diddy's attorneys were arguing.
And at one point, one of the judges actually asked the prosecution, was questioning the prosecution, and said, the Mann Act was just a sideshow.
Now you want us to rely on all this acquitted conduct?
That was very compelling.
I believe that that was the argument the prosecution was making.
They were saying, yes, you can consider that, that that is something that judges are allowed to do.
And so that is what they have argued.
In fact, they said even if judge...
A Subramanian made an error in his application and interpretation of the acquitted conduct guideline, which we don't think he did.
But even if he did, they argued that that error would be harmless.
So, you know, they said that and this is what their other argument, according to Combs and his attorneys, basically they were calling this is BS that the district court should have closed its eyes on.
on how he carried out his Mann Act defenses and abused his victims.