Diddy’s attorneys must understand how prosecutors acquired their arms on notes he had inside his Brooklyn cell

• Prosecutors took “improper possession” of Sean Combs’ handwritten notes, his attorneys said Monday.

• The notes had been taken from his jail cell and embody “privileged attorney-client particulars,” they said.

• His attorneys want an evidentiary listening to, at which prosecutors would make clear what was taken and why.

Authorized professionals for Sean “Diddy” Combs on Monday accused the prosecutors in his sex-trafficking case of improperly possessing delicate notes he wrote by hand while in jail awaiting trial in Manhattan.

The handwritten notes and completely different supplies from Combs’ cell embody “attorney-client privileged supplies,” his attorneys said in demanding a listening to to search out out what was taken and why.

Prosecutors ought to make clear who licensed “a search of Mr. Combs’ sleeping house, non-public outcomes, and paperwork” at his federal jail in Brooklyn, his safety crew said in a letter asking US District Court Judge Arun Subramanian to set a direct listening up to now.

“The targeted seizure of a pre-trial detainee’s work product and privileged provides — created in preparation for trial — is outrageous authorities conduct amounting to a substantive due course of violation,” his attorneys wrote throughout the letter, signed by defense attorney Marc Agnifilo.

Combs has been held in a Brooklyn detention center since mid-September when he was arrested on a federal indictment alleging he engaged in a decadeslong pattern of bodily and sexual violence in opposition to plenty of victims, along with at elaborate sex parties he called “freak offs.”

He has pleaded not accountable to the charges. His attorneys have said the sexual contact was consensual, and that his accusers have a financial incentive to lie.

Combs’ attorneys said in Monday’s letter that they solely realized that federal prosecutors had been in possession of privileged provides from their client’s jail cell late on Friday, all through an ongoing licensed battle over bail.

Prosecutors referenced the provides in a 30-page memorandum opposing Combs’ third bid at bail. Their arguments for shielding Combs detained included allegations that the multimillionaire music mogul was trying to impede justice by contacting witnesses, along with a girl he hoped would publicly help him.

The prosecution’s bail memorandum did make level out of “notes from the defendant’s cell” that had been taken from Combs “all through a pre-planned nationwide sweep of BOP facilities,” a reference to the federal Bureau of Prisons. Particulars of the handwritten notes had been redacted from the prosecution memo.

Prosecutors assured the safety and the resolve that any seized provides that licensed as “most likely privileged” had been reviewed by an neutral authorities “filter crew” to remove any attorney-client communications that prosecutors are barred from seeing.

On Monday, Agnifilo countered that prosecutors’ 30-page bail memorandum reveals the filter crew did not do its job.

“In precise truth, the Authorities is in possession of privileged supplies and are actively using this supplies to detain the defendant,” Agnifilo wrote in asking for an evidentiary listening to.

Agnifilo and a spokesman for the US Authorized skilled’s Office did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Combs, his safety crew, and prosecutors are scheduled to return to courtroom on Friday for the third spherical of bail arguments. He has provided his Miami mansion as collateral for a $50 million bail bundle deal that may include 24-hour-a-day monitoring and residential confinement on the property.

Two federal judges declined Combs’ earlier bids for bail after prosecutors argued that the prospect of his obstructing justice and the prospect to the group had been too extreme for him to remain free.