U.S. v. RESSAM, (W.D.Wash. 2001)

COUGHENOUR, Chief Judge

The United States of America, by and through Katrina C. Pflaumer, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, and Steven C. Gonzalez, Assistant United States Attorney for said District, and the defendant Ahmed Ressam, and his attorneys Michael Filipovic and Jo Ann Oliver, enter in to the following stipulation to be introduced at jury trial in the above-entitled matter set for March 12, 2001.

The parties stipulate that Dr. Louis-Jean Deslauriers, if called as a witness and placed under oath would testify as follows:

I am a medical doctor in Quebec. I have been a guarantor on many passport applications for my patients. I have reviewed what has been marked as government's exhibit 1014. The business address listed for the guarantor is mine, but the telephone number is not mine, and the signatures on the back of the photograph and on the form are not my signatures. My given name is Louis-Jean, not Jean-Louis. There are no other Dr. Deslauriers at my business address. I do not know anyone by the name of Benni Noris, Ahmed Ressam or Bartholiny Eugene I do not know the man on the photograph affixed to the passport application.

Respectfully submitted,

KATRINA C. PFLAUMER United States Attorney

STEVEN C. GONZALEZ Assistant United States Attorney

AHMED RESSAM Defendant

MICHAEL FILIPOVIC Attorney for Defendant

JO ANN OLIVER Attorney for Defendant