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A federal judge in Florida has ordered an investigation of grand jury materials. Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein The first decision, of many expected decisions, is to open it Release Grand Jury Documents Publicly In matters related to the late financier.
District Judge Rodney Smith ordered the release of material from the 2005 and 2007 grand jury investigations. The judge had initially rejected the request but reconsidered the decision on Friday after Donald Trump. approved a measure Which forces the Justice Department to release all the investigative files it has.
The Justice Department faces a Dec. 19 deadline to publicly release the files, which do not include documents shown to the grand jury that considered indictments against Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Separate requests to unseal grand jury materials are underway in New York, where federal prosecutors brought sex trafficking charges against Epstein in 2019. There is another judge considering release Grand jury documents in the case against Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being found guilty of recruiting and grooming young women and girls in connection with Epstein.
Maxwell’s lawyers said this week that the release of grand jury files from her case could complicate it long-shot effort To get a new trial.
“The release of grand jury materials from her case, which include unproven and unproven allegations, would create such severe unfair prejudice that it would eliminate the possibility of a fair retrial” should she successfully win a retrial, they wrote.
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