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Five Guantánamo detainees accused of aiding the attacks wanted a promise of care for torture-related trauma and to avoid solitary confinement.

The decision deprives prosecutors of a key piece of evidence against Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri in the longest-running death-penalty case at Guantánamo Bay.

The Saudi defendant was waterboarded and subjected to other forms of torture by the C.I.A. in 2002 in a secret prison network.

The judge has postponed hearings in the case. A proposed agreement would avert a death-penalty trial for the five defendants.

The Biden administration had adopted a policy excluding all evidence obtained through torture; the prosecutor argued the law allowed it.