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Jacob G. Zuma, who heads the country's governing party, the African National Congress, is seeking to convince the Constitutional Court that reams of evidence should be excluded from his trial in August on corruption charges connected with an arms deal. Mr. Zuma, who denies the charges, says the search warrants were vague, overly broad and did not protect his communications with his lawyer. If convicted, Mr. Zuma would be barred from serving as president of South Africa. In court papers, the state says the evidence establishes that Mr. Zuma, above, took hundreds of payments from his financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, and Mr. Shaik's companies. The state says Mr. Zuma did not pay income taxes on much of that money. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]