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.

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 say prosecutors have engaged in “outrageous government conduct” by using materials seized from his jail cell to try to keep him incarcerated.