Federal agents raided Sean Combs‘ jail cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he is awaiting trial on sëx trafficking and racketeering charges.
Prosecutors seized attorney-client privileged notes from the disgraced rapper’s jail cell, according to court documents obtained by TMZ.
The search comes weeks after the feds raided the entire jail complex looking for contraband brought into the facility by officers and visitors.
Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo claimed the privileged material includes Combs’s handwritten notes to his legal team concerning defense witnesses and defense strategies for his upcoming trial.
Agnifilo said the feds admitted to taking the notes and that the seizure violates Combs’s Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights.
“This search and seizure are in violation of Mr. Combs’ [constitutional] rights,” Agnifilo said in documents viewed by Billboard.
“The targeted seizure of a pre-trial detainee’s work product and privileged materials – created in preparation for trial – is outrageous government conduct amounting to a substantive due process violation,” he added.
“This is a matter of grave concern that, most respectfully, must be addressed immediately, because the U.S. Attorney, and it seems the trial prosecutors, are currently in possession of privileged materials we request a full evidentiary hearing as soon as the Court can accommodate us.”
Last week, Combs asked a judge for a gag order to silence his accusers and witnesses in an effort to protect his A-list friends.
The judge denied the request. But another judge ordered an anonymous accuser to identify herself or her lawsuit would be dismissed.
