A legal stipulation from August 2019 in which Jeffrey Epstein's defense team and federal prosecutors agreed to dismiss Epstein's appeal in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals following his death.

This is a stipulation of dismissal filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Appeal No. 19-2221-cr) in the case United States of America v. Jeffrey Epstein. The document shows that both parties—Epstein's lawyers Reid Weingarten and Martin Weinberg, and the U.S. government—agreed to dismiss the appeal with prejudice following Epstein's death on August 10, 2019. The stipulation confirms that once dismissed, the appeal cannot be reinstated, and that neither party will seek to recover costs, expenses, or fees from the other.

Key Highlights

• •Appeal dismissed with prejudice following Jeffrey Epstein's death in August 2019
• •Reid Weingarten and Martin G. Weinberg represented Epstein—both were prominent defense attorneys who had argued Epstein should be released on bail and later expressed skepticism about the official suicide ruling
• •The dismissal was mutual and final, with no possibility of reinstatement
• •Document relates to the federal sex trafficking case brought by the Southern District of New York in July 2019

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