Diddy’s handwritten ‘to-do list’ asking a family member to ‘find dirt’ on victims was among materials seized during a recent raid in his jail cell.
This was disclosed during an emergency court hearing in New York on Tuesday, November 19.
At the court hearing, Lawyers for Didd claimed his sex trafficking case may have to be dismissed due to ‘prosecutorial errors’ during the prison raid.
Attorney Marc Agnifilo accused prosecutors of a ‘complete institutional failure’ that they say could have potentially jeopardized the case.
The defense team claimed the rapper’s constitutional rights were violated last month when federal investigators seized 19 pages of his notes during a sweep of his cell and shared them with prosecutors.
Agnifilo claimed the material contained Diddy’s handwritten privileged notes to his legal team concerning defense strategies for his upcoming trial.
The court heard feds also seized Diddy’s ‘Things to Do’ list, which included telling a family member to ‘find dirt’ on two alleged victims, as well as pages in which he wrote ‘inspirational’ quotes for himself.
Agnifilo called the pre-planned sweep a ‘pretext’ for a prison investigator to target Diddy – real name Sean Combs.
The potential remedy could include the ‘dismissal of the indictment’, he said, or the recusal of the prosecution tea
‘We don’t know enough to say which is the reasonable remedy’, he told the court.
Judge Arun Subramanian ordered that the prosecution delete all of its copies of the papers for the time being.
The emergency hearing came after the defense filed new court documents revealing they only learned prosecutors were in possession of the privileged material from the October 28 raid on Friday.
Diddy has been languishing in jail as he awaits trial for racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
He was arrested on September 17 and is expected to go on trial next May. He has denied all charges.
Agnifilo told the court that defense lawyers are now looking into the incident to determine how serious the matter is.
He also said the court needed to review the surveillance footage from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where Diddy is being held, to work out what happened during the search.
Judge Subramanian ordered the Bureau of Prisons to preserve the footage
