United StatesJeffrey Epsteinâs accusers cannot challenge plea agreement -U.S. appeals court
Jonathan Stempel
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U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
A federal appeals court rejected a challenge by a Jeffrey Epstein accuser to an agreement not to prosecute the financier, and to shield his associates from criminal liability for aiding his sexual abuses.
By a 7-4 vote, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled on Thursday that Courtney Wild and other accusers lacked standing under the federal Crime Victims Rights Act to disturb Epstein s 2007 nonprosecution agreement, though they had been kept in the dark while it was being negotiated.
en banc) again rules Jeffrey Epstein s victims had no pre-charge rights under federal CVRA
Almost exactly one year ago, as blogged here, a divided Eleventh Circuit panel handed down a very long opinion on an very interesting issue concerning the rights of victims of a very high profile (and now very dead) federal defendant. The opinions in the original panel decisions
In re Courtney Wild, No. 19-13843 (11th Cir. April 14, 2020) (available here), ran a total of 120 pages. Yesterday, exactly a year and a dat later, the Eleventh Circuit handed down this new
en banc ruling in this case ruling 185 pages. Judge Newsom, who authored the original panel s majority opinion for the court also authored the lead
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A deeply divided 11th Circuit acknowledged prosecutors misled victims of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein when they struck a plea deal granting him immunity from prosecution on sex-trafficking charges, but a majority held victims cannot challenge the deal now.
Jeffrey Epstein, center, is shown in custody in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, File)
ATLANTA (CN) In a mammoth ruling Thursday that included two scathing dissents, the en banc 11th Circuit rejected a victim’s challenge to a plea deal struck over a decade ago which shielded investment tycoon Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators from criminal liability for running an underage sex ring.
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