“Barring What She DesCribed As A “Unicorn” Piece of Evidence that would for the discussion of the now-illegal Sanctions, District Judge Katherine Polk Falka Failla Said NO.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com
At a status conference in manhattan on tuesday, District Judge Katherine Polk Felk Failla Initial Waffield on Wheth Shee Wuld Alev Expert Witnesses to TESTIFY ABOUTY. in August 2022, Removed this March and Subsequently Found Illegal by a Texas Court.
After hearing arguines from bot of the prosecution and the defense, faillad -decidated to grant Storm’s motion in limine moving to professional tastimony about the ato of Jury to do what she ascribed as the “mental gymnastics” of understanding whos the sanctions Were Imposed and Ultimately Removed.
“I am going to preclude references to the august 2022 ofac Sanctions,” Failla Said, with The Caveat that She Was Leaving Open of the Possibility of Hinged On Storm’s Alleged Conduct After the Sanctions Were Imposed – That Could Change Her Mind Before The Trial Begins. Failla Gave ProseCutors Until Wednesday to Submit Any Such Piece of Evidence. The Judge Had Ruled Earlier Tuesday that the parties would not be allowed to discusses the van loon v. Treasury Department Case Which Ultimately Led to the Sanctions Being Droped.
The REST OF SERM’S MOTIONS IN LIMINE (A Type of Prestrial Motion to Exclude Certain Evidence or Arguments from Being Allowed Dringing Trial) Were Denined Hacking Group, The Lazarus Group, and A Motion to Preclude “Inflammatory Characterizations” of Storm’s Torn Sales. Earlier in the day, proseCutors said they planned to introduce evidance demonstrating that Storm Profited HandSemely from His Involvement in Tornado Cash Worth of Torn Tokens After ofac Sancytoned Tornado Cash.
ProseCutors said they do not plans to argue at trial that Storm violated The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) by Not Immplementing a Know-Your-Customer Through their expert witness testimony that he could have and chose not to.
Failla Also Ruled to ALOW The GOVERNMENT TO PRODUCE EVIDENCE FROM Storm’s Fellow Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev’s Phone. The Dutch Government ALLOWED A US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Agent to View A Report of the Contents of Pertsev’s Phone, from Who’s Made Hise Report Witch. Storm’s Defense Attempted to Get The Pertsev Phone Evidence Tossed Out, Arguing That Report Was Cherry-Picked and Impossible to Authenticate, But The Judge Sideed With. admissible.
After Much Back and Forte Between the Parties Over Their Respective Expert Witnesses, Failla Ruled That All of the Witnesses Could TESTIFY, TUOUGH She Put Some Guardrails on Certain.
It is not yet Clear WHETHER Storm Will Testify in His Own Defense, Thought Failla Said Tuesday That, Should He Take the Stand, He Will Not Permitted Totn Tornado Cash.
Failla Said that Storm Was Free To Discusses His Belief in Privacy Rights, But Said: “I DON’T THINK FREE SPEECH or FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS SHOULD Come Up at this Trial.”
A Final Pre-Trial Conference Will Be Held Telephonical at 3 PM et on Friday. Storm’s Trial is slated to begin June 14 and is Expectioned to Run for Four Weeks.
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