Epstein Secrets

DINGS OF PETITIONERS THIS CAUSE is before the court on the petitioners' motion to use correspondence generated between the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida (USAO/SDFL) and counsel for Jeffrey Epstein to prove the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) violations alleged in this proceeding, joined

13 Page 8 of 11 interests to outweigh the need for probative evidence."Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1, 9-19,116 S. Ct.1923, 135 L.Ed. 2d 337 (1996); Trammel v. United States, 445 U.S. 40, 47,100 S. Ct. 906, 63 L.Ed.2d 186 (1980). Recognizing that there is a presumption against privileges which may be overcome only whcn

Bureau of Investigation began investigating allegations that Jeffrey Epstein had sexually abused several minor girls. The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida accepted Epstein's case for prosecution, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued victim notification letters to two minors, Jane

F.2d at 1004. Although Congress empowered the federal courts through Rule 501 to "continue the evolutionary development of testimonial privileges," Trammel v. United States, 445 U.S. 40, 47, 100 S. Ct. 906, 910 (1980), we disfavor newly minted privileges, which "contravene the fundamental principle that the public has

DINGS OF PETITIONERS THIS CAUSE is before the court on the petitioners' motion to use correspondence generated between the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida (USAO/SDFL) and counsel for Jeffrey Epstein to prove the Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) violations alleged in this proceeding, joined

Page 8 of 11 interests to outweigh the need for probative evidenc,e."Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1, 9-19, 116 S. Ct.1923, 135 L.Ed. 2d 337 (1996); Trammel v. United States, 445 U.S. 40, 47, 100 S. Ct. 906, 63 L.Ed.2d 186 (1980). Recognizing that there is a presumption against privileges which may be overcome only whe