Confiscation of notes from Sean “Daddy” CoombsLast month’s jail cell reportedly included pleas from a family member to find “dirt” on the rapper’s alleged victims.
According to NBC News, the 11 pages and “eight pages of a calendar book” containing notes written by Coombs, 55, inside his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, were found to be “an anti-prohibition and anti-narcotics document.” was seized as part of a “planned sweep”. According to the outlet’s reporting on the court proceedings on Tuesday, November 19.
The outlet reported that Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavok Prosecutors claimed Diddy wrote about “paying off witnesses and finding dirt on the victims,” before directly quoting Slovic, saying, “One witness was paid off and two different ones. There is no honor in finding dirt on victims.”
US District Judge Arun Subramaniam On that day, the court ruled that the prosecution “get rid of the copies” of the notes. The court, meanwhile, will “hold the papers” as prosecutors and Combs’ legal team will “submit briefs about the raid” in the coming weeks.
We weekly Diddy’s legal representatives have been contacted for comment.
At the court hearing, prosecutors accused Combs of trying to influence witnesses behind bars after his Sept. 16 arrest on transportation charges for involvement in sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution. I am imprisoned.
Slavok noted to the judge that “no member of the prosecution team knew about or was responsible for the search” and that it was the result of an investigation by the Bureau of Prisons.
A representative from the Bureau of Prisons also spoke at Tuesday’s hearing, according to the outlet, explaining that the search was “part of an ongoing investigation and that the material was received in an entirely appropriate manner.”
Combs’ defense team has denied the prosecution’s allegations, including an Oct. 14 statement by Combs asking a family member to “work with someone who has information about the accuser.” Also included is a recount of the call of “no lawyer”. .
Coombs’ lawyer Mark Agnifilo “Most importantly, no multi-agency law enforcement action justified rifling through Mr. Coombs’ personal handwritten notes of conversations with his attorneys,” wrote a response to Tuesday’s hearing. What, and the prosecution’s arguments to the contrary have no merit.”
As for Slavik’s claim that it was “not a privilege” to review Diddy’s notes, ABC News reported that Agnifilo begged to differ. “Each page from the stack is subject to attorney-client privilege,” he reportedly told the court.
“Virtually everything in those legal pads are matters that he discusses with his lawyers,” Agnifilo said, according to ABC. “This has been a complete institutional failure.”
The turn of events on Tuesday came when Agnifilo fired back at prosecutors’ claims in a legal motion filed on Friday, November 15, that Didi tried to obstruct the investigation by contacting witnesses while in jail.
“Defense counsel recently learned that the prosecution had privileged attorney-client material, including the defendant’s own written notes. This search and seizure violated Mr. Coombs’ Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights. is a violation,” Agnifilo argued in a letter submitted on Monday, November 18.
Agnifilo claimed, in documents obtained by the court us That day, Diddy’s legal team was unaware that the musician’s written notes had been taken from his cell and given to prosecutors until prosecutors filed a motion on Friday.
In September, a 14-page indictment accused Diddy of hosting “elaborate and staged sexual performances” called “freak-offs” and alleged that he used “coercion, threats of coercion and coercion.” so that victims can engage in long-term sex acts with male commercial sex workers.”
Dadi has remained behind bars after being denied bail twice by two different judges who based their denials on concerns about tampering with potential witnesses.
A third bail hearing filed by Dadi’s legal team on October 8 is currently scheduled for Friday, November 22.
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