The Feds' raid on Diddy's jail cell has proved to be inconsequential, for now ... as a judge sided with the rapper's defense team after hearing arguments from both sides.
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00:00I was at one of P. Diddy's freak-offs.
00:03Freak-offs.
00:04You saw celebrities there that you recognized.
00:07Mm-hmm.
00:08It was a rapper that we all know.
00:11Straight-up porn directed by Diddy.
00:13I'm just grateful to have made it out.
00:15We have to tell you about Diddy because the tables turned some yesterday in court.
00:22The judge reamed the prosecutor for...
00:26The raid.
00:27Misconduct.
00:28I mean, I don't know how else to put it.
00:30It is misconduct.
00:31This was the hearing over those documents that were taken out of Diddy's jail cell in the raid.
00:36And those documents, according to Diddy's team, included their legal strategy for this case.
00:43And by the way, the feds denied that they took any of this.
00:49They laid out this whole claim that they never seized anything involving lawyer client strategy.
00:56Any legal documents, right.
00:57That they never even opened his legal strategy file.
01:01That all they took were little doodles about music and whatnot.
01:05Well, it turns out it's not true.
01:07Yeah.
01:08Turns out it's not true.
01:09And the judge had a very simple direction for the prosecution.
01:12Get rid of it.
01:14Yeah.
01:15Get rid of all those documents.
01:1611 pages.
01:1711 pages.
01:18Now, again, this is attorney-client information.
01:23That is sancrosanct in the legal system.
01:26And the idea that prison officials would seize that.
01:29And by the way, the whole thing about we had this pre-planned raid five months ago that we were going to go into all these cells.
01:36Suddenly that got thrown out the window because then they said, look, he's been doing some shady things.
01:42They made claims that he was trying to influence the jury, a potential jury.
01:48So it doesn't sound like it was a general raid that they planned five months ago and executed last month.
01:54Yeah.
01:55But they put that out there.
01:57They said this is why we did it.
01:58We never targeted Diddy.
01:59Well, it's feeling like, A, they targeted Diddy, and B, they seized things they never should have had.
02:05It's a bit of a PR mess.
02:07I think not necessarily because they took it.
02:09That sometimes happens, right?
02:10Law enforcement will go in and raid a house or jail cell, whatever it is, and they'll take a lot of stuff.
02:14And sometimes wrapped up in that is privileged information.
02:17The difficulty for the feds is they appear to either lie about it or at best were mistaken about it when it came out.
02:24Had they said, look.
02:25Jason, this is not mistaken.
02:27I mean, I'm sorry, but you don't make the mistake of saying we weren't targeting Diddy if they were.
02:33And you don't make the mistake of saying we didn't seize any legal documents if the judge is saying, yes, you did.
02:39Yeah, no.
02:40The explanation does not bear any fruit at all.
02:42I mean, it really is.
02:43It seems to be this was coordinated.
02:46It seems to be that the feds have lost some credibility with the court, is my guess, after this.
02:52And that matters, right?
02:53There's going to be a ton of evidentiary rulings being now in trial.
02:56And the judge, he's looking askance at the prosecution saying, you're not being totally honest with me.
03:00That's going to cause some real problems for them.
03:02So let's get real for a second, because I made a couple of phone calls on this yesterday.
03:07And the sense, I think, among the Diddy folks is that the prosecution is essentially telegraphing they got problems with their case.
03:19That they had to push the line and cross it even because they're worried about their case.
03:26I can see why they would take it that way.
03:29And we told you that Diddy's team, they want to get this trial going as quickly as possible.
03:34Right now, it's scheduled to start in May, which doesn't sound really close, but it is in terms of a case this size.
03:41And the reason they want to go fast is because they think, and this is more evidence, I'm sure, to them, that the prosecution doesn't really have all their ducks in a row.
03:52Now, by the way, and by the way, on Friday, I believe, there's a bail hearing, a third bail hearing.
03:56Right.
03:57So it's going to be really interesting.
03:59Now that maybe the judge is inclined to hear their offer for bail.
04:07It would be something if the judge changes the bail ruling based on this.
04:12I mean, the bail ruling presumably is based on Diddy's a flight risk, having nothing to do with the, I don't think the evidence.
04:19Well, two things, a flight risk and influencing witnesses, which is one of the things they used in their document about the raid to kind of justify what they took.
04:30And now they kind of got caught.
04:32Well, we should say the judge did say, I'm going to make a ruling on the material that was taken in the raid.
04:40I will make a ruling at a later date, but in the meantime, destroy all of it.
04:45So it is possible that some of it, which the prosecution said was redacted.
04:49That's true.
04:50They may get some of that back.
04:51That's right.
04:52For now, the judge said, I don't want you holding on to it until I make that decision.
04:55That's true.
04:56Roy Williamson, Rancho Cucamonga, California.
04:58I agree.
04:59You have to do things the right way.
05:01And we don't do things the right way.
05:02It kind of ruins your credibility.
05:04And when you get it, evidence illegally is fruits from the poisonous tree.
05:09So the judge was correct in this matter.
05:11Where'd you learn that?
05:12Where'd you learn that?
05:13That's very legal of you.
05:14Poison tree.
05:15Where'd you learn that?
05:16I used to be a cop for 20 years.
05:17There you go.
05:18All right.
05:19I knew you knew something.
05:20I knew you knew something.
05:21By the way, there is one more legal update.
05:23Aside from the federal case, Diddy now facing five more lawsuits filed by attorney Tony Busby.
05:31All anonymous plaintiffs, but a lot of the same allegations that we've seen in the other lawsuits.
05:39Drugging.
05:40Drugging.
05:41Rape.
05:42Fours.
05:43And men and women involved.
05:45Men and women plaintiffs.
05:47So they keep stacking up.
05:49Remember, Tony Busby said he's now representing 120 alleged victims.
05:54Now more.
05:55Now way more.
05:56Because it was 120 like two months ago.
05:58But he hasn't filed all the lawsuits.
06:00Hasn't filed all the suits, but he says he's got 120 people.
06:03Right.