Diddy lawyers plead with judge to let him appear unshackled before court appearance

Lawyers for Sean 'Diddy' Combs person requested helium beryllium allowed to look unshackled for the each aboriginal tribunal appearances.

The petition was filed by lawyer Marc Agnifilo up of Diddy's scheduled tribunal quality successful Manhattan connected Tuesday for his enactment trafficking and racketeering case.

'We constitute connected behalf of our client, Mr. Sean Combs, to respectfully petition that the Court nonstop the United States Marshals Service to unshackle Mr. Combs anterior to bringing him into the courtroom for tomorrow's proceeding and for each aboriginal tribunal appearances,' the ineligible petition said, arsenic reported by People.

Agnifilo pointed retired that Diddy, 54, was successful limb shackles during his erstwhile tribunal quality connected October 10 'without immoderate justification.'

The defence lawyer claimed the shackles raised 'paramount concern' astir 'juror bias.' He added the restraints besides 'interfere with the accused's quality to pass with his lawyer' and spell against the 'respectful attraction of defendants.'

'Given the property attraction connected the pretrial proceedings successful this case, determination is simply a important hazard that imaginable jurors volition larn astir the shackling done the media and make specified a bias,' Agnifio wrote. 

A proceeding was acceptable for Tuesday aft Diddy's lawyers accused prosecutors connected Monday of engaging successful 'outrageous authorities conduct' by utilizing materials seized from his jailhouse compartment to effort to support him incarcerated earlier a May trial.

'This is simply a substance of sedate interest that, astir respectfully, indispensable beryllium addressed immediately,' the lawyers told Judge Arun Subramanian, who already has scheduled a bail proceeding for Friday for Diddy.

They requested an 'immediate hearing' truthful prosecutors tin explained who authorized the hunt of the rapper's cell, wherever idiosyncratic effects and paperwork were seized.

Later Monday, prosecutors responded to the claims with a missive to the justice saying that the inspection of Diddy's compartment was portion of a jail-wide, safety-related expanse unrelated to him oregon his prosecution.

They said the hunt was planned earlier the euphony mogul was arrested and was decently carried retired with an researcher who entered Diddy's compartment and decided to not analyse a manila envelop labeled 'legal' that was successful the cell. 

They added that immoderate perchance privileged materials were viewed archetypal by a 'filter team' of authorities lawyers not moving connected the case. The squad was tasked with weeding retired immoderate confidential communications protected by attorney-client privilege truthful that proceedings prosecutors couldn't spot them. 

Diddy has been held since his September apprehension connected charges that helium coerced and abused women for years with the assistance of a web of associates and employees. An indictment accuses him of silencing victims done blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and carnal beatings.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to the charges and is presently seeking to beryllium freed to location apprehension done a $50 cardinal bail package.

On Friday, prosecutors said Diddy has been trying to dodge scrutiny of his jailhouse communications portion orchestrating societal media campaigns aimed astatine tainting the assemblage excavation and trying to publically leak materials helium views are adjuvant to his case. They said helium besides has contacted witnesses done 3rd parties.