This is Jeffrey Epstein's long-shot legal path to avoiding life in prison. irin writes
Photo: Getty Images This week, the mysteriously wealthy accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein traded his Beaux-Arts mansion for the Metropolitan Correctional Center. It looked a lot like belated justice for the dozens of women he is accused of abusing when they were minors. The question is whether this time it’ll stick.
“Anybody who suggests there’s something easy in this case haven’t given it much thought,” says Scott Greenfield, a criminal-defense attorney. “If I’m a member of his defense team, I’m going to throw every argument possible against the wall.” Says Solomon L. Wisenberg, who co-chairs white-collar defense at the firm Nelson Mullins and who was Ken Starr’s deputy in the Whitewater investigation, “I think that he’ll lose. But I don’t think it’s an open-and-shut question at all.
Epstein’s lawyers will probably argue that he can’t be tried twice for the same crime. Weingarten previewed this argument on Monday, saying that “for due process reasons, double jeopardy reasons, we don’t think [the prosecution] will stand.” But this one will likely be met with skepticism. “Epstein never even got to the position of first jeopardy in Florida,” says former SDNY prosecutor and CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, because Epstein avoided federal charges by pleading guilty to state ones.
But there might be more recent abuse allegations. Prosecutors said in court that new victims have emerged since Epstein was arrested over the weekend, and they’ve encouraged more to come forward. Depending on what they learn, that could still provide a path to charge Epstein even if a judge rules that the non-prosecution agreement applies to new victims from the same time period.
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