LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- Music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs returned to a Lower Manhattan courtroom Thursday morning for the first time since his high stakes trial wrapped up with a split verdict.

Combs deserves to have his conviction overturned because the law, transportation for the purposes of prostitution, should "only be applied to pimping" and Combs "was only an alleged consumer," a defense attorney argued Thursday.

"Prostitution does not include commercial voyeurism," the lawyer, Alexandra Shapiro said, insisting the law requires Combs to have had a financial motive for transporting male escorts, which the trial did not establish.

Combs, in a tan smock over a grey tee shirt, appeared in a Manhattan federal courtroom for the first time since his acquittal on sex trafficking and rack

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