Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs are asking a federal choose to condemn the music mogul to 14 months, successfully equal to the time he has already served, following his July 2 conviction for transportation for the needs of prostitution.

Combs, 55, was acquitted of the extra severe costs of intercourse trafficking and racketeering however has remained in custody for over a yr at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle. In a 380-page sentencing memo filed Monday, his authorized workforce argued that no punishment past time served can be honest or simply.

“Mr. Combs’s near-13 months in jail has been life-changing, productive, and a testomony to his need to return to his household and neighborhood and lead the perfect life doable,” his attorneys wrote, including that he has used his incarceration to pursue rehabilitation, together with sobriety from substance use.

The submitting additionally consists of letters of assist from Combs’ mom, kids, mates, and longtime enterprise associates. It pushes again in opposition to anticipated suggestions from prosecutors and the Probation Division for a far lengthier sentence, reportedly round 5 years. “The prosecutors, for his or her half, have misplaced all perspective,” the protection argued, calling their stance a “draconian method” that disregards the jury’s partial acquittal.

The protection memo additionally seeks to border Combs as a person scarred by loss and trauma who’s now looking for redemption. It cites the deaths of his father, his finest buddy Christopher “Infamous B.I.G.” Wallace, longtime companion Kim Porter, and mentor Andre Harrell as occasions that fueled years of unaddressed struggles with anger, anxiousness, and substance abuse.

Combs’ sentencing is scheduled for October 3. A federal choose already denied his July request for launch pending the listening to.