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House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Source U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Released November 12, 2025 69,179 documents

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Her Family Said They Had Hired A Lawyer For The Express Purpose Of Helping To ""Ward Off The Media

document Her family said they had hired a lawyer for the express purpose of helping to ""ward off the media

we must go back to the trial itself and see how Desiree Washington

document In order to understand why these jurors had such dramatic second thoughts about their verdict

the pageant contestant who accused Tyson of raping her

document Another juror told the media that Desiree Washington

it [now] looks like a woman raped a man.""

document Several of the jurors agreed with me after learning of some of the new evidence. One of them said: ""We [the jurors] felt that a man raped a woman... In hindsight

I was convinced that Mike Tyson did not intend to rape Desiree Washington

document On the basis of our investigation and the new evidence we uncovered

both tactical and legal. The legal expert who reported on the trial for USA Today described the tria

document Tyson’s trial had been a disaster. His prominent white collar trial lawyer had little experience in rape cases and didn’t seem to like Tyson. He made mistake after mistake

he would give me a gentle love tap on my arm or on my thigh. A love tap to him! When I got back to m

document That was Mike Tyson - - direct and to the point. While preparing his appeal I went to visit him in prison several times. The prison rules required that we sit side-by-side facing a camera. Whenever I would say something he agreed with

in which I served as his appellate lawyer. Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington

document A revealing example of how this trade off works in practice is provided by the controversial rape prosecution of Mike Tyson

when the rules were heavily skewed against women

document I have experienced and participated in the changing approaches to the prosecution and defense of rape cases. At the beginning of my career

as the pendulum swung quite dramatically from a male-centered view of rape to a female-centered view

document Nearly all of the rules that had made it difficult to prosecute rapists were amended within the course of little more than a decade

political and academic feminism began to focus attention on the gender inequalities implicit

document During the last quarter of the 20th Century

prosecutors were reluctant to bring charges

document The upshot was that many predatory males got away with rape either because victims were unlikely to complain

No Legal Concept Has Undergone A More Dramatic Change Over The Course Of My Legal Career Than The Crime Of Rape. When I Started To Practice

document No legal concept has undergone a more dramatic change over the course of my legal career than the crime of rape. When I started to practice

even if such openness denies legal finality in criminal cases in which there is no scientific finali

document The prime lesson of the important scientific developments over the past half century is that the courthouse must always remain open to new evidence

because the courtroom doors were shut to new scientific evidence that could prove both innocence and

document It is entirely possible therefore that an innocent man was executed while the guilty man remains at liberty

The Real Problem Is How To Prove One’s Innocence When The Courts Deny Possibly Innocent Defendants The Tools Necessary To Prove The Certainty Of Their Innocence. The Jeffrey Macdonald Case Discussed Previously

document The real problem is how to prove one’s innocence when the courts deny possibly innocent defendants the tools necessary to prove the certainty of their innocence. The Jeffrey MacDonald case discussed previously

such as gubernatorial commutation. (Though in some states they are rarely

document This is not to suggest that plainly innocent people are being routinely executed in the United States. There are other checks and balances

we have repeatedly left that question unresolved

document “This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent. Quite to the contrary

an increasingly conservative Supreme Court

document Over the past several decades

the law is regressing. It is becoming increasingly difficult to reopen “closed cases

document At the same time that science is progressing