It’s been stated that court docket instances are gained and misplaced within the pretrial motions. Be as it could, we’re witnessing some high-intensity strikes by prosecution and protection as each side put together for the Could 2025 trial of mogul rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Now, the most recent improvement within the saga is that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs jail cell was reportedly raided by the feds, who’re stated to have seized his handwritten notes to his authorized workforce.
Daily Mail reported:
“Prosecutors are in possession of attorney-client privileged materials that was seized from the disgraced rapper’s jail cell on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, based on court docket paperwork obtained by TMZ.”
Combs legal professional Marc Agnifilo says it’s privileged materials that features the rapper’s handwritten notes to his authorized workforce regarding each protection witnesses and likewise protection methods for his upcoming trial.
Agnifilo says the feds admit to possessing the fabric, and that ‘the seizure violates Diddy’s Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Modification rights’.
“’This search and seizure are in violation of Mr. Combs’ [constitutional] rights,’ Agnifilo stated in paperwork seen by Billboard.
‘The focused seizure of a pre-trial detainee’s work product and privileged supplies – created in preparation for trial – is outrageous authorities conduct amounting to a substantive due course of violation.
It is a matter of grave concern that, most respectfully, should be addressed instantly, as a result of the U.S. Lawyer, and it appears the trial prosecutors, are at present in possession of privileged supplies we request a full evidentiary listening to as quickly because the Court docket can accommodate us’.”
Combs has been charged with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
He has pleaded not responsible to coercing and abusing girls aided by associates and workers, and to silencing victims via blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
“The prosecution has accused Diddy of obstructing his intercourse trafficking case from behind bars by paying off witnesses and enlisting his personal kids in a ‘public relations marketing campaign’.”
Prosecutors say he influenced potential jurors in his trial with seven of his kids on a video marking his birthday, and – what’s worse – the rapper allegedly paid off one witness after harassing her 128 instances from jail to steer her to assist him.
Combs might be again in court docket subsequent Friday (22) for a bail listening to in a renewed request for him to be freed.
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