Epstein Secrets

essional background above herein. 5 In Landgraf, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeals an

. Dec. 9, 2009), United States District Court for the Northern District of New York addressed the issue of whether §2255 is a civil

y constitutional free speech principles, as a testifying grand jury witness is free to disclose her grand jury testimony . In I Butterworth v. Smith, the United States Supreme Court, weighing the competing interests of grand jury secrecy and the First Amendment, held unconstitutional Section 905;.27’s prohibition on a witness rev

uits that followecj. Appe11dix at 3 (QPR Report, pp. i, ?(ii). 49. In a July 8, 2019, letter to the federal district court by the;u.s. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Epstein was described as ''a serial sexual predator who preyed on doz(;n__s of minor girls over a period of years." The letter emphasized that "the

ein to walk a thin line with regard to "surrender[ing] the very protection which the privilege is designed to guarantee." Hoffman, 341 U.S. at 479. The United States Supreme Court has made clear that the scope of the Fifth Amendment Privilege also encompasses the 10 Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 391 Entered on FLSD D

port a conviction or provide a link in the chain of evidence to support a conviction against Epstein. See M•, Sheldon v. Sheldon, 193 B.R. 152, 162 (S.D. N.Y. 1996)(the Court, in camera, determined that answers to certain deposition questions would support a conviction or provide a link in the chain of ev

interests of the victim. 774 Having seen the Advisory Committee proposal and accompanying note, I am concerned that the limits on subpoenas found in the United States Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Nixon 734 might be vitiated by a broad rule. To ensure courts consistently apply Nixon's substantive and procedural stan

(9th Cir. 2006); United States v. Degenhardt, 405 F. Supp. 1341, 1343-44 (D. Utah 2005); see also United States v. Turner, 367 F. Supp. 2d 319, 333 (E.D.N.Y. 2005) (reaching same conclusion). *98 Bucklew Memo, supra note 580, app. a, at 299, 302-03. DAVID SCHOEN HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017711 --- PAGE BREAK --

sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. 3. The indictment concerning the fifth and sixth applicants 17. In 1999 a Federal Grand Jury sitting in the Southern District of New York returned an indictment against Osama bin Laden and twenty other individuals, including the applicants, inter alia alleging various degrees of

ce had been served. Additionally, any defendant had a statutory right of appeal against sentence to a federal court of appeals and, though rare, to the United States Supreme Court. He could also seek review of the sentencing by the trial judge within one year of the sentence being passed. 132. The Department of Justice's let