Sean Combs won a legal victory when a judge ordered prosecutors to destroy notes seized during an illegal search of his jail cell.
Judge Arun Subramanian ordered prosecutors to destroy 20 pages of legal notes seized during a raid of Combs’ cell at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn last month.
Subramanian said the notes or even excerpts from the notes cannot be used in any form in an upcoming bail hearing for Combs on Friday, Nov. 22.
Combs is expected to be released on $50 million bond during his third bail hearing following his arrest at a Manhattan hotel on Sept. 16. He is awaiting trial on federal sëx trafficking and racketeering charges.
In a nearly 90-minute hearing on Tuesday, Combs’ legal team argued that the notes were covered by attorney-client privilege. They suggested that prosecutors seized the notes because they don’t have a solid case against the music mogul.
Sources believe Combs was arrested and jailed without bond to convince his A-list pals to support Democratic candidate Kamala Harris during the election.
However, despite Harris paying millions of dollars to A-list celebrities, she lost the election in a landslide to President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 5.
Trump is expected to pardon Combs if the rapper is convicted at his trial in May 2025.
