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‘Cannibal cop’ doesn’t want jurors to know wife’s reaction after he posted photos to fetish porn site

The “cannibal cop” wants to keep jurors from learning how scared his wife was after finding out he had posted photos of women she knew on a fetish porn site.

Court papers filed today by Gilberto Valle say the “subjective reaction” of his estranged wife, Kathleen Mangan — who’s set to testify for the prosecution — is irrelevant to the charges against him and should be inadmissible at his upcoming trial.

The Manhattan federal court filing also says Kathleen, who got Valle arrested last year by contacting the FBI, shouldn’t be allowed to say what she thought after reading online chats in which her newlywed hubby allegedly schemed to kidnap, rape, torture, cook and eat women.

“At this point, Ms. Mangan’s opinion is likely to be heavily influenced by what law enforcement officials might have told her, and the bare fact that the United States has decided to pursue this prosecution as far as it has,” public defender Julia Gatto wrote.

Valle further cited “marital privilege” as a reason to keep jurors from seeing “private correspondence” in which his wife — who fled the state with their infant daughter — expressed a “sense of betrayal” and demanded that her he come clean about his “online activities.”

“This young couple’s discussion of these issues has no place in this courtroom,” Gatto wrote.

“A criminal proceeding is no excuse for the United States to expose the intimate details of a man’s marriage or put him on trial for his flaws as a husband.”

Opening statements are set for Monday.

bruce.golding@nypost.com