Ruling On Evidence In Russian’s Arms Case Favors Prosecutors -- New York Times
Prosecutors in the case against Viktor Bout, a Russian man accused of conspiring to sell arms to a terrorist organization, will be allowed to use evidence showing that the United Nations and the United States had placed economic sanctions against him within the last decade, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.
In a hearing about proposed evidence for a trial in October, the judge, Shira A. Scheindlin, also ruled that certain witnesses would be allowed to testify that Mr. Bout directed pilots to deliver weapons and ammunition to Angola and the Congo in the 1990s.
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