Lawyers for Diddy person claimed his enactment trafficking lawsuit whitethorn person to beryllium dismissed owed to 'prosecutorial errors' during a caller raid of the rap mogul's situation cell.
Attorney Marc Agnifilo accused prosecutors of a 'complete organization failure' that they accidental could person perchance jeopardized the case, during an exigency tribunal proceeding successful New York connected Tuesday.
The defence squad claimed the rapper's law rights were violated past period erstwhile national investigators seized 19 pages of his notes during a expanse of his compartment and shared them with prosecutors.
Agnifilo claimed the worldly contained Diddy's handwritten privileged notes to his ineligible squad concerning defence strategies for his upcoming trial.
The tribunal heard feds besides seized Diddy's 'Things to Do' list, which included telling a household subordinate to 'find dirt' connected 2 alleged victims, arsenic good arsenic pages successful which helium wrote 'inspirational' quotes for himself.
Agnifilo called the pre-planned expanse a 'pretext' for a situation researcher to people Diddy – existent sanction Sean Combs.
The imaginable remedy could see the 'dismissal of the indictment', helium said, oregon the recusal of the prosecution team.
'We don't cognize capable to accidental which is the tenable remedy', helium told the court.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs, pictured successful a September tribunal sketch, was contiguous during an exigency tribunal proceeding successful his enactment trafficking lawsuit connected Tuesday
Lawyers for the euphony mogul assertion prosecutors person perchance jeopardized the lawsuit aft seizing privileged worldly from his jailhouse compartment past month
Judge Arun Subramanian ordered that the prosecution delete each of its copies of the papers for the clip being.
The exigency proceeding came aft the defence filed caller tribunal documents revealing they lone learned prosecutors were successful possession of the privileged worldly from the October 28 raid connected Friday.
Diddy has been languishing successful jailhouse arsenic helium awaits proceedings for racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking, and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
He was arrested connected September 17 and is expected to spell connected proceedings adjacent May. He has denied each charges.
Agnifilo told the tribunal that defence lawyers are present looking into the incidental to find however superior the substance is.
He besides said the tribunal needed to reappraisal the surveillance footage from the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn, wherever Diddy is being held, to enactment retired what happened during the search.
Judge Subramanian ordered the Bureau of Prisons to sphere the footage.
Diddy, 55, was not shackled during his tribunal quality Tuesday, the archetypal clip helium has been fixed specified freedoms, aft a justice approved a petition from his lawyers to region them.
The disgraced rap mogul remains incarcerated astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn aft being repeatedly denied bail
He appeared relaxed and was smiling arsenic helium walked successful done a broadside door, cracking jokes with his lawyers and hugging them.
Diddy appeared to bask moving the room, craning his cervix backwards to spot who was successful the nationalist assemblage and pointing towards a tribunal sketch artist.
In a melodramatic moment, Agnifilo held up the files successful question and handed 1 to the justice to review.
Among the worldly which prosecutors had entree to was notes Diddy took down aft 1 of his lawyers suggested a imaginable adept witness, a retired doctor.
Agnifilo said: 'I cannot deliberation of thing much successful the heartland of lawyer lawsuit privilege'.
Prosecutor Mary Slavik told the tribunal that they had acted successful a 'completely appropriate' manner with regards to the documents.
She said that the documents were fixed to a 'Filter Team' – a abstracted radical of prosecutors – who reviewed them to spot if they were privileged.
Slavik said the notes successful question included Diddy's 'Things to do' list, mentions astir household members and fiscal matters and 'inspirational quotes'.
The rapper has been accused of arranging 'Freak Offs,' described arsenic 'elaborate and produced enactment performances' arranged and directed by Combs
Prosecutors assertion that helium tried to power imaginable jurors successful his proceedings by getting his 7 children to station a video marking his day connected November 4th
One enactment talked astir however helium wanted to 'find dirt' connected 2 antithetic victims and Diddy wrote to a household subordinate astir 'finding everything' connected 1 circumstantial victim, the tribunal was told.
Judge Subramanian said that the contented with the notes was not their labeling but the 'context successful which they were taken'.
He said that the tribunal would resoluteness the ineligible privilege substance astatine a aboriginal day and that the adjacent tribunal appearance, Diddy's bail hearing, would spell up connected Friday.
Earlier connected Tuesday lawyers for Diddy requested helium beryllium allowed to look unshackled for the each aboriginal tribunal appearances.
The petition was filed by Agnifilo up of the court appearance.
It comes aft tribunal documents filed connected Friday revealed Diddy has been accused of obstructing the prosecution's lawsuit from down bars by paying disconnected witnesses and enlisting his ain children successful a 'public relations campaign'.
Prosecutors accidental the disgraced hep hop mogul has 'demonstrated an uncanny quality to get others to bash his bidding' adjacent though helium is locked up.
They assertion that helium tried to power imaginable jurors successful his proceedings by getting his seven children to station a video marking his birthday connected November 4.
Diddy allegedly paid disconnected 1 witnesser aft calling and texting her a staggering 128 times implicit 4 days from his jailhouse compartment to transportation her to enactment him.
Prosecutors besides claimed helium utilized different inmates' telephone accounts to marque calls to radical helium is not allowed to talk with and to 'avoid instrumentality enforcement monitoring'.
Dozens of people, immoderate of whom were minors astatine the time, person sued Diddy successful civilian courts for a drawstring of offenses, which helium besides denies.