DiddyThe police defense team is turning on the prosecutor, accusing the federal government of unfairly spying on him during his continued detention.
In new court documents obtained by TMZ, the rap mogul’s legal team says the FBI has trampled on Diddy’s constitutional rights and hindered Diddy’s ability to fairly prepare for his upcoming trial while behind bars.
As the lawyers put it… the FBI blatantly breached Diddy’s confidential communications with his lawyers, once again calling into question the raid on the Bad Boy Records founder’s cell at MDC Brooklyn.
Diddy’s team alleges that the government worked with Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees, who monitored Diddy’s communications – including handwritten notes between himself and defense counsel… and says prosecutors then obtained some of these materials have used to argue against allowing Diddy to be released on bail.
Diddy’s lawyers say a certain staffer took a photo of the notes and sent them to prosecutors in the case… and they say the government orchestrated the prison cleanout under the false pretense of a security issue.
They also call out how the person who Diddy’s cell invaded have even obtained the much-discussed notes… showing that the material was not stored in Diddy’s bed, as prosecutors previously claimed. Rather, Diddy’s team says the A-lister kept the documents in his safe deposit box… apparently poking holes in the accuser’s version of how they came into custody of the notes.
This update comes two weeks after Diddy’s team scored its first major legal victory when a judge ruled in November that the plaintiff “discarding” copies of the notes …at least until a hearing where he could formally decide whether they could be used in the trial.
Diddy – who was that? arrested and charged in September on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution – has tried and failed to secure bail three times… with this raid playing a major role in the latest hearing.
A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.