Epstein Secrets

ood that the SORA hearing would be a non-adversarial proceeding with no opportunity or need to present evidence. For the People now to suggest that Appellant erred "as a tactical matter" in trusting the prosecutor's word, and moreover, should be procedurally barred from challenging the lower court's lega

ting and lurid detail — the very Probable Cause Affidavit that the People themselves expressly repudiated as unreliable for purposes of calculating Appellant's risk level under SORA and that was rejected by the Florida prosecutors who handled Appellant's criminal case. Whether this complete abandonment

pellant did not have a meaningful opportunity to present evidence on his own behalf because 1 As set forth in greater detail in Section II, infra, the District Attorney's Office was presented with, and had already considered, much of this countervailing evidence as part of its pre-hearing investigation and discussion

ood that the SORA hearing would be a non-adversarial proceeding with no opportunity or need to present evidence. For the People now to suggest that Appellant erred "as a tactical matter" in trusting the prosecutor's word, and moreover, should be procedurally barred from challenging the Court's legally in

a prosecutors who handled Appellant's criminal case and which the People themselves expressly repudiated as unreliable for purposes of calculating Appellant's risk level under SORA. Whether this complete abandonment of the People's previous position and sudden defense of the hearing court's unsupportabl

osition of the Assistant District Attorney charged with representing the State and instead, 1 As set forth in greater detail in Section II, infra, the District Attorney's Office was already presented with, and had already considered, much of this countervailing evidence as part of its pre-hearing investigation and di

ood that the SORA hearing would be a non-adversarial proceeding with no opportunity or need to present evidence. For the People now to suggest that Appellant erred "as a tactical matter" in trusting the prosecutor's word, and moreover, should be procedurally barred from challenging the Court's legally in

a prosecutors who handled Appellant's criminal case and which the People themselves expressly repudiated as unreliable for purposes of calculating Appellant's risk level under SORA. Whether this complete abandonment of the People's previous position and sudden defense of the hearing court's unsupportabl

hts to which he is entitled and which deprivation of those rights their actions occasioned. 2 As set forth in greater detail in Section II, infra, the District Attorney's Office was already presented with, and had already considered, much of this countervailing evidence as part of its pre-hearing investigation and di