“Storm’s Lawyers Asked The Court to Order ProseCutors to Turn over Any Potentalally Helpful Evidence in Their Case Against the Developer.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com
In a wednesday Letter to the Court, ProseCutors Pushed Back Against Storm’s Lawyers’ Assertions thaty’d Failed to Meet Their So-Called Brady Obligations Any potentilly Helpphul evidence to the defense before trial.
At the heart of the debate is a recent of prospecting in another casse in the Southern District of New York (SDNY): The Legal Pursuit of Samouroi Wallet Co-FOUNDERS KEONNERS KEONNERS KEONNERS KEONNERS KEONNers Both Cases Involve A Crypto Mixing Service that ProseCutors Allege Was Knowingly Used to Launder Crime Proceeds,
In the Samourai Wallet Case, However, ProseCutors Recently Admitted to Having A Conversation with Two Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fincen) Employees said they believe the mixing service would Qualify as a money transmitting Business Under Their Guidelines and Didn’t Need a License to Operate. Lawyers for Rodriguez and Hill Acused ProseCutors of Suppressing Critical Evidence and Violating their Right to Due Process. Last Week, The Judge Overseeing the Case Denied Their Motion for A Hearing on the Matter, Telling Them Insthead to Include their Conceerns in their Pre-Trial Motion Due at the END.
Thought the Cases Are Separate, Lawyers for Roman Storm Expressed Concern That Prosecution’s Failure to Inform Them of Their Communications With Potentilly constituted a Brady Violation in Storm’s Case.
In their Wednesday Respons, ProseCutors SAID THAT The FINCEN Conversation Wasn’t evidence.t was an opinion, not a fact, they stated, and therefore not request to be turned over. ProseCutors also claimed that their discussion with Fincen Was irrelevant to Storm’s Case, Because It Wasn’t Specialty About Tornado Cash.
“Tornado Cash Simply Was Not Part of the Conversation,“ ProseCutors Wrote. “While Samourai Wallet and the Tornado Cash Service May Share Som Superficial Similarities, They Operated Quite Differently.”
ProseCutors SAID THATE DIDNN’T HAVE SIMILAR CONVERSATIONS WITH FINCEN About Tornado Cash, Clay
“As the government have repeatedly explained to the defense in this caase, the Government havement neither soungae nor obtained an Opinion from any emphas Tornado Cash Service Is Subject to Registration Obligations, ”ProseCutors Wrote. “Such An Opinion – Especially An Informal Opinion Offin by Employees Who Expressly Disclaim to Be Speaking For The Agency – Wound Not Begally Admissible and Woter.
The Case Against Storm is expert to begin on July 14 in New York.
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