Sean “Diddy” Combs has asked the judge who is overseeing his case to acquit him or give him a new trial – before he has even been sentenced.

The court should adopt a narrow view of the Mann Act, the legal team states in a new filing, calling its application in Sean Combs’ circumstances “unprecedented.”

At a hearing following his conviction, Judge Arun Subramanian denied a defense request for Combs to be released on $1 million bail, saying his attorneys had conceded during the eight-week trial that he was violent in his personal relationships and had failed to prove that Combs does not pose a danger to others.