Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorneys are pushing to have some proof obtained throughout raids on his houses in Los Angeles and Miami suppressed, accusing the feds of mendacity to acquire the search warrants, new court docket filings present.
The 55-year-old disgraced music mogul’s protection group alleges authorities made “false statements and omitted critical exculpatory evidence” when it sought the warrants to look Combs’ houses, in addition to his iCloud and telephones, amid its infamous sex-trafficking probe, based on a movement filed in Manhattan federal court docket on Sunday.
When looking for the warrants, the feds overlooked proof that urged one alleged sufferer’s involvement within the so-called sex-fueled “Freak-Off” events was “voluntary and consensual” — and “not coerced as the government suggested in its applications,” the movement claims.
“The probable cause statements were intentionally misleading,” his attorneys wrote. “But it worked — the government got its warrants, leaked damaging information and then executed its military-style raids at Combs’ residences,” the submitting continued.
“Through this duplicity, the government obtained evidence — including multiple electronic devices with an enormous amount of information about his entire life — and an enormous and unfair tactical advantage.”
The closely redacted submitting stops in need of divulging what proof was apparently overlooked.
“The warrants themselves were also grossly overbroad,” the movement said.
“On a theory that Mr Combs’s entire life was a criminal enterprise, the government sought virtually limitless authority to seize any evidence related to that ‘enterprise’ — all his digital devices and the information they contained, all information in his iCloud accounts, plus troves of records and items in his houses, almost none of which was contraband.”
The Unhealthy Boy Data founder was slapped with federal intercourse trafficking fees final September following the raids on his houses.
The federal indictment towards him detailed troubling claims that Combs had allegedly manipulated victims and plied them with medication to take part within the “Freak-Offs” — violent intercourse classes that had been typically recorded towards individuals’ will.
Since his arrest, a flurry of civil lawsuits have additionally been filed towards the rapper alleging abuse courting again a long time.
His attorneys have repeatedly derided the civil litigation as “shameless publicity stunts.”
Combs, who has pleaded not responsible to the federal fees, is being held with out bail in federal custody in Brooklyn forward of his trial in Might.
