A Boston-based attorney has filed contempt of court motions in a trade secrets case against the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Hartford, two federal prosecutors and one investigator, claiming they did not hand over hundreds of witness statements that could have cleared her client.

Defense counsel Patricia DeJuneas alleged prosecutors withheld evidence that would have exonerated electrical engineer Jared Sparks. Her client is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty on charges related to allegations he’d stolen files from his former employer, a defense contractor that built unmanned underwater vehicles for the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research and deployable ice buoys for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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