Proof federal prosecutors obtained by way of searches of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami and elsewhere should be suppressed as a result of the warrants that approved these searches have been unconstitutional, protection attorneys argued Sunday in a brand new courtroom submitting.
The protection argued the warrant purposes for the Diddy’s homes, iCloud accounts, telephones and lodge room have been overbroad, excluded info that would have been favorable to Combs and “offered a grossly distorted image of actuality.”
The closely redacted protection movement doesn’t publicly reveal the specifics of what prosecutors allegedly omitted however mentioned the warrant purposes eradicated necessary context that the Justice of the Peace choose who accredited them ought to have seen, together with a couple of sure witness that the protection contended had purpose to manufacture and embellish.
“However it labored — the federal government acquired its warrants, leaked damaging data, after which executed its military-style raids at Combs’s residences,” protection attorneys mentioned within the submitting. “Right here, moderately than giving the reviewing Justice of the Peace a good abstract, the federal government hid exculpatory proof to bolster its case.”
The protection mentioned a few of the most salacious particulars recounted within the search warrant purposes got here from an unnamed Producer-1 whose accusations “have been by no means credible.” What Producer-1 informed investigators is redacted however the protection mentioned he “had relayed tales about his time working for Combs.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs attends Sean “Diddy” Combs Fulfills $1 Million Pledge To Howard College At Howard Homecoming – Yardfest at Howard College on October 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Photographs for Sean “Diddy” Combs)
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The movement mentioned the federal government doesn’t plan to name Producer-1 to testify.
The movement sought to suppress all proof obtained by way of these searches or grant a listening to to look at the federal government’s conduct in acquiring the warrants.
No remark from federal prosecutors who will as an alternative supply a proper reply in courtroom papers.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and prostitution expenses which are based mostly on the accounts of a minimum of three girls. The protection has argued that a minimum of a kind of girls, Cassie Ventura, was a prepared participant within the alleged “freak-offs” and never a coerced participant because the prosecutors steered.
The music mogul has denied all allegations made towards him. Combs’ attorneys have beforehand informed ABC Information, “Mr. Combs has full confidence within the info and the integrity of the judicial course of. In courtroom, the reality will prevail: that Mr. Combs by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody — man or lady, grownup or minor.”
