Sean “Diddy” Combs scored a major legal win on Tuesday after a judge revealed that he would not consider evidence obtained through raiding of the rapper’s jail cell.
The music mogul’s legal team had raised alarm bells after the raiding incident, noting that privileged materials, including the rapper’s legal notes, were seized.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected to return to court on Friday, November 22, for a third bail hearing.
In a victory for Diddy, federal judge Arun Subramanian ruled that he would not take into account information gathered during a search of the rapper’s jail cell at his next bail hearing.
According to People Magazine, Subramanian also ordered the prosecution to destroy its copies of the 19 pages of notes obtained after the pre-planned Bureau of Prison sweep.
The emergency hearing was called after prosecutors claimed in a Monday night filing that Combs’ attorney-client privilege had been breached.
The rapper’s lawyers, led by attorney Marc Agnifilo, also demanded a hearing immediately regarding the search and seizure of materials from Diddy’s cell.
They requested to know “who authorized a search of Diddy’s cell, who determined what materials to take, who decided to give these materials to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, who decided to give the materials to the trial prosecutors, who decided not to tell Diddy about the seizure, and what exactly was taken.”
