US federal prosecutors have responded to defence motions seeking to limit the evidence that can be presented at the trial.
The US government wants to use an ethics report that laid out the scandal for the board of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee and served as a template for the federal prosecution.
The defense wants to strike that evidence as hearsay, along with any mention of immigration fraud levelled against John Kim, the son of a powerful International Olympic Committee member and the beneficiary of a job arranged by the Salt Lake bid committee.
The ethics report was prepared by a five-member panel, including Utah's former chief justice, and released in February 1999. Defense lawyers call it prejudicial and based on secondhand accounts, not direct evidence.
US District Court Judge David Sam will rule on the motions before the trial, which starts Tuesday with jury selection and could last six weeks.
