WILLIAMSPORT — A federal judge has precluded certain expert testimony in a five-year-old drug case finding prosecutors failed to timely comply with disclosure rules and orders.
As a result, Brann precluded any expert opinion that is based on untimely disclosed materials with the exception being the United Nations publication Clandestine Manufacture of Substances Under International Control. “The court is unwilling to further delay the proceedings as would be required to afford Bressi sufficient time to review and inquire into the reliability of the belatedly disclosed sources.
However, he said that he does not find the belated disclosures were intentional or delayed in bad faith. Bressi established SHIVA Science the Technology Group in Lewisburg after he was released from prison in 2014 where he served time for the manufacture and of explosives and methamphetamine.SHIVA contended to be “in the process of developing some world-changing technologies in fields as diverse as energy, medicine, beverages, communications, entertainment, aerospace, transportation, chemistry, robotics, artificial intelligence and defense.