The lawyers of the Samourai wallet have accused the prosecution of suppressing critical evidence in their case against the co -founders of the mixing service, asking for an audience to determine if the case must now be expelled in the light of Brady’s alleged violation.
In a judicial presentation on Monday, the lawyers of the Samourai wallet told Judge Richard Berman, from the Southern New York District (SDNY) that in August 2023, six months before prosecutors accuse Keonne Rodríguez and William Lonergan Hill (The Crime de la Forcedura network (to the crimes network (to the crimes of the forced, to the network of the forces, to the network of the Forces, to the network of the forces. The guidelines, Samourai Wallet did not qualify as a business of money transmission and did not need a license to operate.
The prosecutors advanced and accused Rodríguez and Hill anyway, and they did not tell the lawyers of the Court or the lawyers of Samourai Wallet about their communication with Fincen until April 1, 2025, when they responded to Brady’s request for the defense of the defense of the specific application for “information of Samourai Wallet They believed that a license was required but not limited to the communications with the crushed, “Farm of the License of the Finals”, the license was not required, but not limited to the communications with the Rotorio, “the transfers,”, the department of the finals was not required, “it was not limited to the communications,” it was not limited to the communications. ” The lawyers wrote.
“The fact that Finnn took the same position with respect to Samourai’s wallet and has transmitted it to these same prosecutors, and that prosecutors accused the accused of committing a crime is shocking,” wrote the lawyers of Samourai Wallet in their presentation.
According to the historical case of the Brady V Supreme Court. Maryland in 1963, the court argued that the Government must deliver any exculpatory or material evidence, essentially, anything that suggests that the accused is not, in fact, guilty, to the defense in a timely manner. Brady’s violations are considered a violation of due process of the accused, they are often reasons for a case to be discouraged. In particular, a judge eliminated the involuntary case of involuntary homicide against American actor Alec Baldwin last year after he revealed himself in the middle of his trial that prosecutors had not turned around the exculpatory evidence.
Samourai Wallet’s lawyers told the court that the government’s breach of revealing his prior consultation to the accusation with Finn has already harmed the case of Rodríguez and Hill.
“For Instance, The Fact that the regulator issuing Licenses for Money Transmitting Businesses Did Not Believe Samourai Wallet Needed One Could Well Have Impacted (I) The Magistrate Judge Judge’s View of the Strength of the Government’s Case in Making Bail Determinations that have confined Mr. Rodriguez to His Home for Nearly A Year and Cut Both Defandants Off from Funds That Court Be used to Mount Their Defense;
Last month, the lawyers of Samourai Wallet asked the court to dismiss the case under the auspices of the so -called “Blanche Memorandum”, a recent memorandum of the United States attached attorney general, Todd Blanche, of the Department of Justice (DOJ), order them to stop the prosecution of their regulatory violations that involve regulatory violations.
Prosecutors met with the defense to consider the application on April 10 and have not yet reached a conclusion almost a month later. If the Department of Justice refuses to leave the charges, Samourai Wallet’s lawyers said in their letter to the court that they would present a motion to dismiss the case for several reasons, including the defendants were not transmitters of money and, therefore, “they could not be processed for not having a license and not implementing anti-mmon anti-winged controls.”
However, due to the evidence that was allegedly retained, Samourai Wallet’s lawyers argued that “even if the interpretation of the law of the Justice Department, and not the main regulator, was correct, the defendants would still have the right to dismiss for lack of fair notification.
The next hearing in the case is scheduled for July 22, 2025 at 1:00 pm et.
Finnn did not respond to the request for comments from Coindesk.
