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Alan Dershowitz Urges ‘Everyone’ To ‘Keep An Open Mind’ About Alleged Epstein Madam Ghislaine Maxwell
The Daily Caller ^ | July 03, 2020 4:23 PM ET | Mary Margaret Olohan

Posted on 07/04/2020 1:38:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Attorney Alan Dershowitz urged “everyone” to “keep an open mind” about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s cohort Ghislaine Maxwell after the FBI arrested her Thursday.

Dershowitz, who has acted as an attorney for notable figures including both President Donald Trump and Epstein himself, spoke out in defense of Maxwell in a Friday op-ed for The Spectator.

Dershowitz formerly helped negotiate a plea deal that gave federal immunity to Epstein and his co-conspirators in 2008, requiring Epstein to serve 13 months in jail in Palm Beach with practically daily work release.

The former Epstein attorney has been accused of sexual abuse by Virginia Giuffre and Sarah Ransome in civil lawsuits that allege Dershowitz had sex with them through Epstein when they were teenagers. Dershowitz denies that he did so and sued Guiffre for defamation.

“Everyone should keep an open mind about Maxwell as they should about others who have been accused by Epstein’s alleged victims,” Dershowitz wrote in his American Spectator op-ed.

He continued: “The truth-testing mechanisms of cross-examination and confrontation must be employed against these witnesses, as they are against other accusers. Only after a full trial, in which both sides are presented should reasonable people come to conclusions about Ghislaine Maxwell.”

A grand jury indicted Maxwell on charges of conspiracy to entice minors to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to these illegal sex acts, transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts, and perjury.

The victims were as young as 14 years old, the indictment said, noting that both Maxwell and Epstein knew that certain victims were minors.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


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KEYWORDS: alandershowitz; barlachdkh; contraindicated; edkh; epstein; ghislainemaxwell; ghislane; jeffreyepstein; mdkh; oftenwrong; pedogate; thedersh
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1 posted on 07/04/2020 1:38:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the plea deal that Mueller/Comey/DS allowed
that ignored everything, why?
what children were given to Mueller and Comey,
or did they just go to judges to be used later?


2 posted on 07/04/2020 1:41:35 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Fred Nerks

Dershowitz appears to be getting a tad twitchy.


3 posted on 07/04/2020 1:41:38 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dershoitz don’t believe in lych mobs?


4 posted on 07/04/2020 1:42:44 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Diogenesis

Comey’s daughter involved with Maxwell case


5 posted on 07/04/2020 1:44:09 PM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When someone as she has been so involved in the capture, rape, and torture of children, mob mentality is perfectly acceptable.


6 posted on 07/04/2020 1:44:32 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Civility doesn’t need to be civil to savages such as her.


7 posted on 07/04/2020 1:45:18 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

chivalry demands that you treat others they way they treat others, they have by their actions shown what they consider acceptable treatment to be.

no double standards. no hypocrisy. no exceptions for age or gender. none.


8 posted on 07/04/2020 1:49:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How does Dershowitz feel about the cops in Atlanta and Minneapolis being hung out to dry by their PDs and pronounced guilty by the media? Haven’t heard much out of him about that.


9 posted on 07/04/2020 1:49:38 PM PDT by Prince of Space (ALL lives matter!)
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To: Candor7

Doesn’t look good.

Why did he have to say anything?


10 posted on 07/04/2020 1:51:11 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dershowitz was Epstein’s attorney. There is NO WAY Dershowitz didn’t know that Epstein was an ongoing serial child rapist.

Dershowitz’s defenders will say that even an ongoing serial child rapist deserves representation. Maybe so. But it sure wouldn’t be me. No amount of money would be enough.

Alan Dershowitz can go to hell.


11 posted on 07/04/2020 1:53:35 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A reminder: If Clinton was President, and Comey still FBI director, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell would still be trafficking and raping young girls, offering young boys to Kevin Spacey, and other pedos, and nobody would be the wiser, and Harvey Weinstein would still be in the movie business.


12 posted on 07/04/2020 1:59:48 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: MarvinStinson
He raises two valid points: the statute of limitations and the non-prosecution agreement Epstein entered as a condition of his earlier guilty plea. Right now there's no Federal statute of limitations on sex crimes with a minor; however, there apparently was in 1997 when GM is alleged to have committed the most recent such crime. Epstein's NPA covered both him and all of his associates, but its validity has been questioned. There's also the cross examination of GM’s accusers, an examination that could destroy them. Bad as she may be, she's still entitled to due process. This play is only in its first act, absent a convenient “suicide.”
13 posted on 07/04/2020 2:02:40 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: MarvinStinson

Exactly!


14 posted on 07/04/2020 2:11:11 PM PDT by fredmann
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To: MarvinStinson

For some reason this reminded me of Bill Cosby’s story about:

A high school shop teacher who was trying to find out who put the bullet in the furnace.

Shop Instructor: You know, if you put a bullet in the furnace, it
reflects badly on your mother.
You’d have to have a pretty lousy mother to put a bullet in the
furnace.
Student, bawling: I didn’t put no bullet in the furnace, and stop
talking about my mother that way.


15 posted on 07/04/2020 2:16:21 PM PDT by DOC44
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL

Oh Dersh, you are well and truly in trouble now.


16 posted on 07/04/2020 2:20:05 PM PDT by babble-on
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The next card he’ll play is anti-semitism.


17 posted on 07/04/2020 2:20:20 PM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll bet he does

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-accuser-sues-alan-dershowitz-over-alleged-sex-ring


18 posted on 07/04/2020 2:25:21 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
🎶 somebody’s getting nervous! 🎶
19 posted on 07/04/2020 2:32:00 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
How come when a cop kills someone he is a murderer and racist long before he goes to trial abut this woman is innocent in spite of all the stories?

Innocent until proven guilty unless it is against the morals of the Liberal supremacy.

20 posted on 07/04/2020 2:34:01 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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