Mega Edition: Judge Arun Subramanian Opinion And Order On Diddy's Privileged Material Claim (5/20/25)

In an Opinion and Order issued by U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, the court addressed the handling of Sean "Diddy" Combs’s notes seized during a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) sweep at the Metropolitan Detention Center between October 28, 2024, and November 1, 2024. During the operation, a BOP investigator, referred to as Investigator-1, took photographs of nineteen pages of Combs’s handwritten notes and sent them to the Government’s filter team. The filter team is composed of Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSAs) who are not involved in the prosecution of the case. Their role was to review and redact any privileged or irrelevant material before passing the documents to the prosecution team.

The case team, which includes the agents and AUSAs directly responsible for investigating and prosecuting Combs, received the redacted notes from the filter team. This procedural safeguard is meant to ensure that privileged or irrelevant information is not improperly accessed by prosecutors handling the case. The ruling underscores the court’s scrutiny over how seized evidence is handled, particularly when it involves sensitive materials belonging to the defendant. The order may influence future legal arguments about attorney-client privilege, due process, and the integrity of the prosecution’s access to evidence in this high-profile case.


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