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…5 th Judicial Circuit- Palm Beach County Florida 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Dexter Lee Assistant U.S. Attorney Southern District of Florida 99 N.E. 4th Street Miami, FL 33132 Dated: New York, New York 4848-4442-5859v. l 3930033-000039 3 January 11, 2019 Swo...

…onouncements and should not be countenanced. That is all the more true under the circumstances where the duly appointed U.S. Attorney opined that, in effect, the "unitary" Executive Branch was driving this prosecution. We now know that is not so. What I respectfully request, and...

…modating the powerful. Much of that accommodation is of Democrats. Indeed, at the time Acosta was working in Miami as a U.S. Attorney, he had alienated some Republicans by such accommodation while at the Department of Justice. Some say he was on the verge of being fired when Atto...

…modating the powerful. Much of that accommodation is of Democrats. Indeed, at the time Acosta was working in Miami as a U.S. Attorney, he had alienated some Republicans by such accommodation while at the Department of Justice. Some say he was on the verge of being fired when Atto...

… 59852 words Author: Paul G. Cassell* * Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law of the University of Utah, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 2002-07. Thanks to Sara Sun Beale, Doug Beloof, Doug Berman, Russell Butler, Matt Cannon, Meg Garvin, Nancy King,...

… public comments on the 10-year-old case, Jeffrey H. Sloman — who at the time was second in command under Acosta at the U.S. Attorney's Office in HOUSE OVERSIGHT 023126 Miami — said prosecutors resolved the case based on the facts and evidence, and what he called "legal impedimen...

…x case Julie K. Brown Nine months before cutting a covert plea deal with sex trafficking suspect Jeffrey Epstein, Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta was notified that the lead prosecutor in Epstein's case had concealed victim information in another underage sex crimes case, the...

…x case Julie K. Brown Nine months before cutting a covert plea deal with sex trafficking suspect Jeffrey Epstei , Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta was notified that the lead prosecutor in Epstein's case had concealed victim information in another underage sex crimes case, the...

…a note 3 and accompanying text. 2 Crime Victims' Rights Act, Pub. L. No. 108-405, 118 Stat. 2261 (2004) (codified at 18 U.S.C.A. 3771 (West 2004 & Supp. 2005)). The CVRA was part of a much larger piece of legislation that addressed a variety of subjects, known as the "Justice for...

…and Nila Lynn Crime Victims' Rights Act, Pub. L. No. 108-405, 118 Stat. 2260, 2261-65 (2004) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. § 3771 (2012) and 42 U.S.C. § 10603(d)-(e) (2006)). 2 The Availability of Crime Victims' Rights Under the Crime Victims' Rights Act of 2004, 35 Op. O.L.C...

…RNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINOLOGY Vol. 104, No. 1 Copyright © 2014 by Northwestern University School of Law Printed in U.S.A. CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS DURING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS? APPLYING THE CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS ACT BEFORE CRIMINAL CHARGES ARE FILED PAUL G. CASSELL* NATHANAEL...

…ostal larceny and theft and one count of property theft. Epstein plead guilty to a single charge of conspiring to steal U.S. Treasury checks from resi- dential . mailboxes and re- ceived 5 years' probation. The remaining charges were dropped. Since then, Epstein's name has turned...

…es against Epstein. The defense attorneys' motion to intervene states the sanctity of plea talks would be undermined if U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra in West Palm Beach allows the correspondence to be used in the third-party civil action brought by the alleged victims. New Yo...

…em that springs to mind for American criminal justice. But in fact, some of the prominent contemporary complaints about U.S. criminal justice, as well as some longstanding ones, object to underenforcement of criminal law. Two of the most notable categories are failures to prosecu...

…actions when they refuse to testify in response to probative evidence offered against them." Baxter v. Paltnigiano, 425 U.S. 308, 318 (1976); accord Vasquez v. State, 777 So.2d 1200, 1203 (Fla. App. 2001). The reason for this rule "is both logical and utilitarian. A party may not...