Music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs asks court to quickly consider legality of his conviction

Sean Combs has asked for a quick decision on the legality of his sentence (Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP)

Hip-hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs wants a federal appeals court to quickly consider the legality of his conviction on prostitution-related charges and his more than four-year prison sentence.

His lawyers filed papers with the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, asking that oral arguments in his appeal occur in April.