Federal prosecutors are arguing a Boston jury should be able to consider evidence that 30 guns, many of them loaded, and $822,000 in cash was stashed in alleged gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's Santa Monica apartment.
In court filings this week, prosecutors put forth that the guns, ammunition and cash "is strong intrinsic evidence of his determined flight from justice, his intent not to be captured without a fight and, thus, his consciousness of guilt with respect to the crimes with which he is charged," according to the Boston Herald.
Bulger's defense team has been trying to keep the evidence from the jury.
Bulger and Catherine Greig were arrested in Santa Monica in June 2011. They had been living in a rent controlled apartment at the at the Princess Eugenia on Third Street.
Read more on the Boston Herald.
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