U.S. judge OKs Cuban documents in Posada case, keeps trial date

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Saturday, 12.18.10
U.S. judge OKs Cuban documents in Posada case, keeps trial date
BY JUAN O. TAMAYO
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A U.S. judge has rejected Luis Posada Carriles' request to throw out evidence against him provided by the Cuban government, and kept his scheduled Jan. 10 trial date in Texas.

Posada is charged with lying under oath during immigration procedures about his role in a dozen 1997 bombings of Havana hotels.

He's not charged with the bombings, which killed an Italian tourist.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso Thursday denied a motion by Posada's Miami lawyer, Arturo V. Hernandez, to throw out 6,200 pages of evidence gathered by the Cuban government and submitted in the case by U.S. prosecutors.

Hernandez argued that he received the documents in November, although prosecutors had them in March 2007 and he repeatedly asked for a copy beginning May 2009.

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