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(NewsNation) — Sean "Diddy" Combs’ attorneys person accused prosecutors of engaging successful “outrageous authorities conduct” alleging that they seized notes and different “privileged attorney-client” worldly from the music mogul’s jailhouse cell and are utilizing it to support him locked up.
In a missive requesting an contiguous hearing, his lawyers alleged Monday that prosecutors gathered “privileged material, including the defendant’s ain written notes” during a raid on Combs’ cell astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn.
They said those materials were cited successful papers the authorities filed successful Manhattan national tribunal connected Friday successful a bid to support the euphony mogul locked up earlier his May 5 trial.
“This hunt and seizure are successful usurpation of Mr. Combs’ Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights," the lawyers told Judge Arun Subramanian.
"The targeted seizure of a pre-trial detainee’s enactment merchandise and privileged materials – created successful mentation for proceedings – is outrageous authorities behaviour amounting to a substantive owed process violation," they added.
They demanded prosecutors reply who authorized the hunt of Combs’ cell, wherever idiosyncratic effects and paperwork were seized.
Subramanian gave prosecutors until 5 p.m. ET Monday to respond to Comb’s lawyers and acceptable a proceeding connected the substance for Tuesday afternoon.
Combs has been held successful pre-trial detention portion awaiting his proceedings since September.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that helium “led a racketeering conspiracy that engaged successful enactment trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, among different crimes. “
Combs is presently seeking to beryllium placed connected location apprehension done a $50 cardinal bail package.
On Friday, prosecutors said Combs 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.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.