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-<wrap lo>//See also: [[summary_fact_check|Peters' Personal Spending Spurs Axanar Accounting]]//</wrap>+<wrap lo>See also: //[[order_exclude_evidence|Judge Rules on Excluding Evidence]]// and //[[summary_fact_check|Peters' Personal Spending Spurs Axanar Accounting]]//</wrap>
  
 Attorneys filed motions December 16, 2016, seeking to exclude evidence from Axanar’s upcoming copyright infringement trial. The defense, as expected, challenged the admissibility of defendant [[Alec Peters]]’ damning financial records,  and sought to disallow testimony from //Prelude// director [[gossett-subpoena|Christian Gossett]] and former chief technologist [[terry_mcintosh|Terry McIntosh]], citing their "personal drama" and "smear campaign" against Peters. Attorneys filed motions December 16, 2016, seeking to exclude evidence from Axanar’s upcoming copyright infringement trial. The defense, as expected, challenged the admissibility of defendant [[Alec Peters]]’ damning financial records,  and sought to disallow testimony from //Prelude// director [[gossett-subpoena|Christian Gossett]] and former chief technologist [[terry_mcintosh|Terry McIntosh]], citing their "personal drama" and "smear campaign" against Peters.
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 [{{ ::december-16-1.jpg?nolink|**DEADLINE** Attorneys for both sides asked the court to keep certain evidence away from the jury.}}] [{{ ::december-16-1.jpg?nolink|**DEADLINE** Attorneys for both sides asked the court to keep certain evidence away from the jury.}}]
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-===== Evidence to Keep from Jury ===== 
  
 December 16 was designated by federal [[judge_r._gary_klausner|Judge R. Gary Klausner]] as the deadline for attorneys for both Axanar and the studios suing Peters to submit motions to exclude evidence from the upcoming trial. December 16 was designated by federal [[judge_r._gary_klausner|Judge R. Gary Klausner]] as the deadline for attorneys for both Axanar and the studios suing Peters to submit motions to exclude evidence from the upcoming trial.
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 +===== Evidence to Keep from Jury =====
  
 Among the motions filed, the parties sought to exclude the following evidence: Among the motions filed, the parties sought to exclude the following evidence:
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   * **EXPERT MEDIA WITNESS** CBS and Paramount sought to exclude expert testimony of academic [[https://t.co/GuZqvvImFO|Henry Jenkins]], a professor at the University of Southern California, who has argued that fan works deserve protection under copyright law's [[fair use]] provisions.   * **EXPERT MEDIA WITNESS** CBS and Paramount sought to exclude expert testimony of academic [[https://t.co/GuZqvvImFO|Henry Jenkins]], a professor at the University of Southern California, who has argued that fan works deserve protection under copyright law's [[fair use]] provisions.
  
-==== How Evidence was Gathered ====+===== How Evidence was Gathered =====
  
 Both sides gathered a great deal of potential evidence as part of the [[discovery]] process in the case, some of which has already been submitted to the court as part of both sides' request from the judge to issue a [[summary judgment]] in their favor to avoid or limit the scope of the trial [[anatomy_of_the_case|scheduled]] to begin January 31, 2017. Both sides gathered a great deal of potential evidence as part of the [[discovery]] process in the case, some of which has already been submitted to the court as part of both sides' request from the judge to issue a [[summary judgment]] in their favor to avoid or limit the scope of the trial [[anatomy_of_the_case|scheduled]] to begin January 31, 2017.
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 ==== Axanar Goes on the Defensive ==== ==== Axanar Goes on the Defensive ====
  
-Notwithstanding Ranahan's protestations, Peters' public relations team sought to downplay what had so far been made public about his alleged mismanagement of the funds that were intended to produce the //Axanar// film. According to the defense's own expert financial witness all that money is gone;((Expert Report of Christian Tregellis, CPA, ABV, CFF, CLP, Hemming Morse, LLP, p. 15, 12/5/16.)) the promised film was never produced.+Notwithstanding Ranahan's protestations, Peters' public relations team sought to downplay what had so far been made public about his alleged mismanagement of the funds that were intended to produce the //Axanar// film. According to the defense's own expert financial witness all that money is gone;((Expert Report of Christian Tregillis, CPA, ABV, CFF, CLP, Hemming Morse, LLP, p. 15, 12/5/16.)) the promised film was never produced.
  
 <wrap lo>See also: //[[summary_replies#Axanar's Money is Gone]]// and //[[summary_fact_check|Peters' Personal Spending Spurs Axanar Accounting]]//</wrap> <wrap lo>See also: //[[summary_replies#Axanar's Money is Gone]]// and //[[summary_fact_check|Peters' Personal Spending Spurs Axanar Accounting]]//</wrap>