From TMZ
Lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs are arguing his sentence is far too harsh ... accusing the judge in a new legal filing of punishing him for crimes for which he was acquitted.
The rapper's legal team filed an appeal Friday in which they point out a jury found Diddy not guilty of six trafficking and RICO charges ... yet Diddy received a sentence his lawyers say is roughly four times higher than normal for his pr0stitution-related Mann Act convictions.
Diddy's lawyers blast his 50-month sentence as a "perversion of justice."
They say the judge engaged in "acquitted conduct" sentencing -- the practice of increasing punishment based on rejected allegations -- which they insist has been criticized across the legal landscape.
Diddy's team wants an appeals court to order Diddy's "immediate release and grant a judgment of acquittal or at least vacate and remand for resentencing."
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