Lawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs accused national investigators this week of wrongfully confiscating privileged materials from his Brooklyn jailhouse cell, a "weak" claim, according to 1 ineligible adept who explained however inmates person a reduced anticipation of privateness portion down bars.
Combs' ineligible squad is accusing the prosecution of improperly obtaining astatine slightest 19 pages of notes from his locker successful the national detention halfway successful Brooklyn – including "intact pages from 2 antithetic ineligible pads," pages from an code book, and torn-out pages from 3 different ineligible pads.
However, according to Neama Rahmani, a erstwhile national authoritative who runs a backstage signifier successful Los Angeles, thing taken from Combs by national investigators that they turned implicit to prosecutors was apt vetted by a third-party squad and recovered not to see immoderate privileged material.
"Diddy’s lone existent accidental astatine an acquittal is wage off, threaten, oregon blackmail the victims to alteration their stories," Rahmani said. "And prosecutors privation to marque definite that doesn’t happen."
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Sean "Diddy" Combs rides a bicycle from his location crossed the Star Island Bridge successful Miami Beach, Florida, Thursday, April 4, 2024. The hip-hop magnate's South Florida location was raided by Homeland Security Investigations and section instrumentality enforcement past period arsenic portion of a national investigation. (Romain Maurice/Mega for Fox News Digital)
Combs pleaded not blameworthy successful September to national enactment trafficking, racketeering and different charges.
His defence squad is asserting that immoderate of the worldly is protected by attorney-client privilege. A proceeding connected the substance was scheduled for 3 p.m. Tuesday, and his lawyers separately asked the justice to fto him look without shackles moving forward.
The items were taken during a national hunt of the jailhouse that authorities antecedently said was pre-planned and not connected to Combs' case.
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Combs' allegedly employed associates to assistance support and beforehand the Combs Enterprise. (Shareif Ziyadat)
Rahmani downplayed the claims from Combs' high-powered ineligible team, which experts accidental faces an uphill conflict fixed the gravity of the lawsuit and the resources of the Justice Department.
"Inmates don’t person a Fourth Amendment anticipation of privateness successful prison, truthful that statement is weak," helium told Fox News Digital. "Guards tin hunt his compartment without probable origin oregon a warrant."
Potentially privileged documents typically acquisition peculiar treatment, helium said.
Sean "Diddy" Combs attends 2023 Invest Fest astatine Georgia World Congress Center connected August 26, 2023 successful Atlanta, Georgia. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
"The feds usually usage a ‘taint’ oregon ‘dirty’ squad of agents that aren’t moving connected the lawsuit to behaviour these searches," helium said. "That way, if they spot privileged materials, the ‘clean’ squad won’t beryllium disqualified from the case."
Combs is owed successful tribunal for a bail proceeding Friday, his latest effort to spell escaped before trial. Prosecutors, however, impeach him of attempting to unit witnesses from down bars and accidental helium indispensable stay remanded.
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"Prosecutors person crushed to judge Diddy is obstructing justness from prison, by contacting witnesses done intermediaries," Rahmani said. "This is the aforesaid statement they made during his bail hearing, and I deliberation they person the grounds to backmost it up."
In tribunal documents, his lawyers argued that the brutal battle of erstwhile woman Casandra "Cassie" Ventura successful a Los Angeles hotel, preserved connected video, was portion of "a minutes-long glimpse into a analyzable but decade-long consensual relationship betwixt Mr. Combs and Victim-1."
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Prosecutors antecedently raised "serious concerns" astir the information of victims and witnesses if Combs were to spell free, and the justice overseeing his transgression lawsuit rejected his wide-ranging petition for a gag bid that would person restricted further accusers from coming forward.
"Combs’s authorities don’t enactment a gag bid applicable not lone to proceedings participants, but besides to immoderate alleged unfortunate and their lawyer," Judge Arun Subramanian wrote. "Local Rule 23.1 doesn’t authorize this benignant of relief. The limitations of that regularisation don’t adjacent use to witnesses, fto unsocial prospective ones that haven’t yet been identified."
Combs has been held without bail astatine a national jailhouse successful Brooklyn since his apprehension connected national enactment trafficking, forced prostitution and racketeering charges.
A proceedings is scheduled for May 5 of adjacent year. By then, the U.S. lawyer overseeing his lawsuit could beryllium replaced by President-elect Donald Trump's nominee, erstwhile Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton.
The feds opened their probe successful November 2023, astir the clip Ventura sued Combs alleging carnal and intersexual abuse. They settled retired of tribunal a time aft she filed it.
Sean "Diddy" Combs signals to boaters arsenic they walk by his Star Island location successful Miami Beach, Florida connected Sunday, April 7, 2024. The hip-hop magnate's South Florida location was raided by Homeland Security and section instrumentality enforcement past period arsenic portion of a national investigation. (Zak Bennett for Fox News Digital)
Combs vehemently denied the allegations from Ventura and from each of the different accusers. Then the video leaked – showing the astir bare billionaire brutally assaulting her successful the hallway of Los Angeles' Intercontinental Hotel.
The video appeared to corroborate astatine slightest 1 assertion successful Ventura's suit – that Combs assaulted her successful the edifice successful 2016.
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"Mr. Combs became highly intoxicated and punched Ms. Ventura successful the face, giving her a achromatic eye," her lawyers alleged.
He was drunk, according to the lawsuit, and erstwhile helium passed retired she tried to sneak out. But helium allegedly woke up and resumed screaming astatine her, followed her into the hallway and threw her connected the ground.
Sean "Diddy" Combs stands earlier U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky aft prosecutors brought 3 transgression charges against him successful Manhattan national court. (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg)
Over the past year, caller accusers person continued to travel forward, and Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee said successful October helium present represents much than 100 radical looking to writer the rapper.
He has been accused of doling retired day rape drugs and victimizing adults and children astatine parties, immoderate of which allegedly progressive unnamed "celebrity" accomplices.
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize has been sexually assaulted, delight interaction the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) oregon spell to rainn.org.