In a new filing, Diddy’s attorneys seek to suppress evidence while criticizing the federal government for applying a “racist” law that is “used to target Black men”

Sean “Diddy” Combs and his legal team are making every effort to have the disgraced music tycoon out from prison.

Diddy’s defense lawyers contended in a new court filing on Sunday that the warrants that permitted the federal prosecutors’ searches of the rapper’s homes in Miami and Los Angeles were unlawful, and that the material they gathered must be suppressed.

The defense said that the warrant applications for the Combs’ homes, phones, iCloud accounts, and other items omitted information and “presented a grossly distorted picture of reality,” according to ABC News reported. The defense petition states that the warrant applications removed crucial context that the magistrate judge who granted them ought to have seen, but it does not publicly disclose the details of what the prosecution allegedly failed to include.

The publication reported that defense lawyers stated in the document that “it worked — the government got its warrants, leaked damaging information, and then executed its military-style raids at Combs’s residences.” “Here, the government concealed exonerating evidence to support its case rather than providing the reviewing magistrate with a fair summary.”

The defense continued by claiming that an unidentified Producer-1 provided some of the most inflammatory information included in the search warrant applications, and that the claims made by this person “were never credible.” The defense stated that Producer-1 “had relayed stories about his time working for Combs,” however the details of what he told investigators have been censored.

This motion aimed to either hold a hearing to review the government’s actions in obtaining the warrants or suppress any evidence gathered during these searches. Similar to this, Diddy’s attorneys are arguing that his federal indictment was unfairly based on a “racist” legislation.

According to USA Today, Combs’ attorneys filed a request on Tuesday to have his transportation to participate in prostitution accusation dismissed, claiming that “no white person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution.”

“There has never been a similar RICO prosecution,” the producer’s defense team continues, adding that the federal charges are primarily based on “allegations that Mr. Combs and two of his longtime girlfriends sometimes brought a third party — a male escort — into their sexual relationship” from another state.

Combs is facing a number of federal accusations, including a breach of the Mann Act, sometimes referred to as the White-Slave Traffic Act. Because of this, it is unlawful to transport individuals over state or international borders for the purpose of prostitution, which Combs’ attorneys said has a history of racial prejudice and seldom leads to conviction.

The law, according to Diddy’s legal team, has historically been “used to target Black men and supposedly protect white women from them.” They also claim that the act has been used to accuse people of “deviant sexual behavior” and target “black male sexuality,” including Chuck Berry and boxer Jack Johnson from the Jim Crow era.

The U.S. Southern District of New York brief states that “no other person, and certainly no white person, has ever previously been prosecuted under the White-Slave Traffic Act for hiring male escorts from another State.” “Mr. Combs is being prosecuted for actions that frequently go unpunished, and he has been singled out because he is a powerful black man.”

The document further asserts that the usage of escorts, whether male or female, is “common” and “widely accepted,” stating that the firm Combs reportedly utilized for this service—which has been redacted—is a “legitimate commercial business.”