In the impending trial for a man accused of planting bombs in New York City and New Jersey, prosecutors will not be able to submit evidence related to the defendant's alleged shootout with and flight from Linden, New Jersey, police.

But U.S. District Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District of New York said on Tuesday he will allow key pieces of evidence in the case against Ahmad Khan Rahimi that could be favorable to the prosecution against him in New York, including the pipe bombs that he allegedly planted near a charity race in Seaside, New Jersey, and at a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Berman will also allow prosecutors to admit a notebook found on Rahimi's person after his arrest containing references to foreign terrorist organizations and figures such as Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.