Federal prosecutors in Manhattan at a court hearing Thursday asked the judge presiding over Sean “Diddy” Combs’ case to reject his bid to get his conviction overturned and the argument he’s made that filming his girlfriends in humiliating sexual encounters with strangers was protected First Amendment activity.

The disgraced mogul, sporting a grey beard, looked disheveled as he walked into the courtroom shortly after 11 a.m., wearing beige prison scrubs. He has asked Manhattan Federal Judge Arun Subramanian to throw out his conviction, grant him a new trial, or, in the alternative, to impose an effective term of time served when he’s sentenced next week on Oct. 3, more than a year after his high-profile arrest.

At Thursday’s hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik said

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