(NewsNation) —Sean “Diddy” Combs will appear in court Thursday as his attorneys are set to argue for his acquittal or retrial on a pair of prostitution-related charges.

The hearing comes a week before Combs is set to be sentenced by Judge Arun Subramanian, who presided over his criminal trial this summer.

“This is their last-ditch effort before the sentencing to try to get [Combs] out in terms of either reversing the conviction or getting a new trial,” Tre Lovell, an entertainment attorney, told NewsNation.

They will use this hearing to argue that the Mann Act was improperly charged and that the facts don't fit the elements, he said.

Combs has spent nearly 13 months in jail after a jury convicted him in July on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution under the Mann Act,

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