Sean Diddy Combs is due to appear in court on Tuesday for a hearing over how prosecutors came to possess his handwritten notes following a search of the jail cell where the rapper and producer is being held ahead of his sex trafficking trial.

Evidence found in Sean "Diddy" Combs' jail cell suggests he has influenced a witness in his New York sex trafficking and racketeering case and is trying to blackmail others, prosecutors allege. They say that he has sought to avoid federal detection by using three-way calls and other inmates' phone access codes.

Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused prosecutors on Monday of engaging in “outrageous government conduct” by using materials seized from his jail cell to try to keep him incarcerated before a May trial.

Attorneys for Sean "Diddy" Combs are accusing prosecutors of leveraging private legal writings seized from his jail cell to keep him behind bars until his May trial.

Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs accused federal prosecutors of “outrageous” conduct for obtaining the former music mogul’s personal notes from his jail cell.

Amid fresh allegations that Sean “Diddy” Combs is managing a PR campaign from behind bars intended to intimidate witnesses and influence jurors, lawyers for the embattled hip-hop mogul on Monday demanded a hearing into how federal authorities obtained his paperwork from Brooklyn MDC.

The hip-hop mogul accused federal prosecutors of violating his constitutional rights by leafing through his handwritten jailhouse notes.

Combs had family carry out a social media campaign on his birthday "with the intention of influencing the potential jury in this criminal proceeding," prosecutors claim.