The criminal trial of a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was postponed by a federal judge Monday after defense attorneys said they received new evidence over the weekend from prosecutors.

Jury selection was set to begin Wednesday in Washington, D.C., in the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi. It would have been the first U.S. trial stemming from the bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich did not specify the nature of the novel evidence in his order.

Al-Marimi’s defense team said prosecutors handed them the evidence on…

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