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This is a key point:
1. Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys know they are proposing a type of bail package that the presiding judge passionately rejected three years ago, to enter a protracted battle over the previously held right of rich criminal defendants await out trial in luxury.
1. Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys know they are proposing a type of bail package that the presiding judge passionately rejected three years ago, to enter a protracted battle over the previously held right of rich criminal defendants await out trial in luxury.
2. This is a key package:
"More precisely, we realize that Your Honor objects to the measure as more akin to custody than release, finding it inequitable for wealthier defendants to 'buy their way out' of jail pending trial."
The attorneys then signal Second Circuit battle.
"More precisely, we realize that Your Honor objects to the measure as more akin to custody than release, finding it inequitable for wealthier defendants to 'buy their way out' of jail pending trial."
The attorneys then signal Second Circuit battle.
3. Extremely wealthy defendants HAVE been able to finance luxe bail packages with armed guards keeping them under house arrest in their plush apartments.
In one case, a federal judge had to tell a billionaire: no closed door massages. courthousenews.com/masseuse-okd-c…
In one case, a federal judge had to tell a billionaire: no closed door massages. courthousenews.com/masseuse-okd-c…
4. The masseuse, however, was judicially approved in that case.
Where the rubber hits the road: Epstein's attorneys are going all-in on their "equal protection for the rich" argument, but in the Zarrab case, Berman also nixed the bail package because he was a flight risk.
Where the rubber hits the road: Epstein's attorneys are going all-in on their "equal protection for the rich" argument, but in the Zarrab case, Berman also nixed the bail package because he was a flight risk.
5. Also, federal prosecutors want to seize the $77 million mansion that Epstein envisions as his private, pre-trial prison, as the site of his alleged sex-trafficking hub and where authorities reported discovering his carefully marked stash of child porn.
6. Story on this soon for @CourthouseNews.
The upshot is: Epstein's attorneys have cast court relief only available to millionaires and billionaires as an equal protection battle, and signaled a willingness to fight that battle long after Monday's bail hearing.
The upshot is: Epstein's attorneys have cast court relief only available to millionaires and billionaires as an equal protection battle, and signaled a willingness to fight that battle long after Monday's bail hearing.
7. Another thing that distinguishes Epstein's bail motion from the Zarrab case.
Zarrab did not ask to be locked up at the site that was raided as a crime scene, where authorities recovered "at least hundreds--if not thousands" of pieces of photographic evidence against him.
Zarrab did not ask to be locked up at the site that was raided as a crime scene, where authorities recovered "at least hundreds--if not thousands" of pieces of photographic evidence against him.
This is a DEVELOPING story on the Epstein bail proposal for @CourthouseNews.
Much more to come soon. courthousenews.com/lock-me-up-in-…
Much more to come soon. courthousenews.com/lock-me-up-in-…
