Lawyers for the Samaurai Wallet have accused the persecution of suppressing critical evidence in its case against mixing service co-founders, calling for a hearing to determine if the case should now be thrown into the alleged violation of Brady.
In a court filing on Monday, lawyers for the Samaurai wallet told Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York (SDNY) that in August 2023 – six months before prosecutors charged Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill with a number of conspiracy to make money in the monetary money, Wallet does not qualify as a business that sends money and does not require a license to operate.
The prosecutors preceded and charged Rodriguez and Hill, and did not tell any of the court or Samaurai attorneys to respond to the defense of the defense of the defense for “any information suggesting that a Samaurai license does not require a communication in communicating with the Department of the Department of lawyers.
“The fact that Fincen took the same position about the Samaurai wallet and delivered it to both prosecutors, and that prosecutors would charge the defendants for committing a crime was surprising,” Samaurai Wallet’s lawyers wrote as they filed.
Under the case of the Landmark Supreme Court Brady V. Maryland in 1963, the court held that the government should provide any exculpatory or material evidence – essentially, whatever suggests that the defendant did not, in fact, guilty – in defense in a timely manner. Brady violations are considered a violation of the defendant’s appropriate process, and often grounds for a case to be discarded. Notice, a Judge threw out the accidental murder case against American actor Alec Baldwin Last year after it was revealed in the middle of the road by his trial that prosecutors failed to turn on exculporatory evidence.
Samaurai Wallet lawyers told the court that the government’s failure to reveal its pre-infantment consultation to Fincen has advised Rodriguez and Hill’s case.
“For example, the fact that the regulator that releases licenses for the money that sends businesses does not believe that the Samaurai’s perspective that a person needs can affect (i) the perspective of the magistrate judge of the government’s case in making bail defines following their arraignments,” the file said.
Last month, lawyers for the Samaurai wallet asked the court to dispose of the case under the auspices of the so-called “Blanche Memo”- A recent memo From the US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to the Staff of the Department of Justice (DOJ), they were ordered to stop persecution of regulatory violations involving crypto, and could not pursue cases against crypto or mixer exchanges for their end users’ actions.
The prosecutors met in the defense to consider the request on April 10 and still have not reached a conclusion almost a month later. If the DOJ refuses to drop the charges, lawyers for the Samaurai wallet in their letter to the court that they will file a motion to remove the case on many grounds, including the defendants who are not sending money, and thus “cannot be prone for not having a license and not implementing anti-money licenses.”
However, due to the evidence that it is said to be restrained, the Samaurai Wallet’s lawyers argue that “even the interpretation of the Department of Justice in the Law -and not the chief regulator’s -is right, the defendants have the right to eliminate and a large part of their lifestyle.
The next hearing in the case ended for July 22, 2025 and 1:00 pm et.
Fincen did not respond to CoinDesk’s request for comment.
