Diddy's defense team is coming out swinging against the prosecution ... accusing the federal government of unfairly spying on him amid his ongoing detention.
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00:00Diddy says there's something nefarious going on while he's being detained at MDC Brooklyn.
00:06He says he's being spied on, that the feds have been working with the Bureau of Prisons
00:12to systematically take notes and sometimes take photographs and information that is being
00:20shared with the prosecutors.
00:21Wow.
00:22He says it means he absolutely cannot get a fair trial.
00:27Part of this has to do with the fact that he was denied bail again last week, and he
00:34thinks that part of the reason he's being denied is that the prosecutors are getting
00:39a head start essentially.
00:40They know what the strategy is that he and his attorneys are going to use because they've
00:46seen his notes, handwritten notes.
00:48With the raid, Charles, and we obviously know how they felt about that, that there was privileged
00:52information.
00:53Judge agreed, by the way, that the prosecution should not be able to see.
00:57They get access possibly to defense strategy here.
01:00I understand.
01:01There is nothing wrong.
01:02Let's put it right out there.
01:03There's nothing wrong with prison officials, quote unquote, spying.
01:06That's a loaded term versus keeping a video or audio record of what's happening in there.
01:12Now, when you reach a limit, which is what he sort of seems to be alleging, that they're
01:17taking advantage of it to see his confidential attorney client, privileged communications,
01:22that goes over the line.
01:23But we've been hearing a lot from Diddy, right?
01:25I mean, this is-
01:26But isn't that the difference there, Jason?
01:28I mean, there are ... The thing that stood out to me when he said that there are handwritten
01:32notes that they are either taking or taking photographs of, handwritten notes between
01:39himself and his attorneys.
01:41That's different than a phone call.
01:43Obviously your phone calls are going to be monitored when you're in jail, but if they're
01:47taking photos of-
01:48This happens all the time, and Diddy just has really successful lawyers that are making
01:53a big deal of it, really good lawyers that are making a big deal of it.
01:56When they raided his cell, they were not going through fine tooth and comb to seeing what
02:00they could take and what they couldn't.
02:01They were taking everything.
02:02This happens all the time, and then you get back and then you determine, okay, these might
02:06be privileged, so we can't look at these and we can't consider them for prosecution.
02:10That is part of the process.
02:12He is being held over for trial because there was enough evidence to establish that he had
02:17committed some incredibly heinous crimes, that he was a flight risk, and that he was
02:22intimidating witnesses.
02:24He doesn't get all the privacy that he wants in there.
02:28That's not the way the system works, nor should it, nor could it.
02:32He's suffering for the price of whether you believe he's ultimately going to be found
02:35guilty or not.
02:36He's paying the price for being, at this point, found to be held over for trial.
02:43Is part of this a strategy for setting up, if he loses the case, setting up possible
02:49appeals, is to put all this out there?
02:52Yes.
02:53Obviously, all of it will be brought up in appeal if he loses.
02:55I think right now, they're really waging a war in the courtroom of public opinion.
03:00At this point, that seems to be what this is about, to get people on his side so they
03:05don't all abandon ship.
03:07He has his people supporters.
03:09It seems to be that for me right now.
03:11Hi.
03:12My name is Kimberly.
03:14I am from Florida, sorry.
03:17My opinion on this is, I'm so sorry about Florida, Diddy cannot be trusted at all.
03:23I don't think the government trusts him.
03:25And I think that's why they're watching him so closely.
03:28We know that he was trying to bribe witnesses and tamper with evidence.
03:33He's a boogeyman.
03:34He needs to be locked away.
03:35I also think he's trying to play victim right now, like, well, it's me.
03:39Look at they're doing this, they're doing that.
03:41Keep him in there.
03:42Keep denying the bail because he can't be trusted in society.
03:46Well, that's that's how prosecutors feel that the argument they've made now, what, three,
03:51four times.
03:52Four times.
03:53No bail.
03:54I don't think he's getting bail.
03:55This trial is going to happen in May and he's going to be in jail.
03:57Right.