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Robert Kraft Case Hinges on Appeal of Video Evidence Decision

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Trying to salvage their case against Robert K. Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, for solicitation of prostitution, prosecutors in Florida on Tuesday appealed a lower court decision that had thrown out video evidence.

In May, a judge in Palm Beach County agreed with Mr. Kraft, whose lawyers argued that video showing the N.F.L. team owner and other patrons of a day spa in Jupiter, Fla., was improperly obtained by undercover video cameras installed there.

The Florida state attorney general, taking up the case for the state attorney in Palm Beach County who charged Mr.