Attorneys for Sean “Diddy” Combs are accusing prosecutors of leveraging personal authorized writings seized from his jail cell to maintain him behind bars till his Might trial.
Lawyer Marc Agnifilo accused the feds of “outrageous government conduct” in new paperwork filed in Manhattan federal court docket.
Combs’ protection crew alleges that authorities beforehand raided his jail cell and confiscated paperwork that had been legally privileged and shouldn’t have fallen into the arms of the prosecutors, in keeping with the court docket docs.
Then, in keeping with Agnifilo, they used the paperwork to make sure that the music mogul was not granted bond.
“This is a matter of grave concern that, most respectfully, must be addressed immediately,” Agnifilo advised Choose Arun Subramanian, who had beforehand scheduled a bond listening to for Friday.
Agnifilo has requested an “immediate hearing” for prosecutors to clarify who initially approved the search of Combs’ cell, and allowed them to grab his paperwork and private results.
Diddy, 55, is presently dealing with a long time behind bars.
Federal brokers raided his Los Angeles and Miami properties in March, seizing a whole bunch of intercourse movies and a mountain of intercourse paraphernalia — together with 1,000 bottles of child oil and lube. In a assertion, the US Lawyer’s Workplace alleged that the intercourse events weren’t all the time consensual.
Authorities charged Combs with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution.
Along with the fees, he faces a myriad of civil fits from his alleged victims — together with two from males who allege that they had been minors — simply 10 and 17 — after they had been horrifically raped by the music mogul.
Combs has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. He has pleaded not responsible and insists that any sexual contact has been consensual.
He’s requesting to be launched to deal with arrest through a $50 million bond bundle.
Neither prosecutors or Diddy’s attorneys returned the Submit’s requests for remark.
