Posted on 07/05/2020 7:25:07 PM PDT by Enlightened1
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that attorneys for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s accuser Virginia Guiffre must destroy certain Epstein files that were improperly obtained.
The ruling came after attorney Alan Dershowitz requested access to the documents, Newsweek reports. Dershowitz said the documents would be an asset to his defense in his 2019 defamation case against Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who said Dershowitz was one of the men with whom Epstein forced her to have sex.
“The Court is not convinced that the production of the [Ghislaine] Maxwell materials to Mr. Dershowitz would even vindicate those important objectives beyond making life easier for Mr. Dershowitz,” Senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said in her ruling. “The sheer breadth of Mr. Dershowitz’s request is worth reiterating: he seeks ‘all filings and discovery materials, including third-party discovery’ from the Maxwell litigation, a years-long affair with over a thousand docket entries.”
The judge called Dershowitz’s request not a ” targeted strike” but instead “a carpet bombing.”
Authorities arrested Epstein in July 2019 on charges that he both sex trafficked and conspired to engage in sex trafficking. He died the next month, in August 2019, of apparent suicide in a New York City jail. But as victims continue to bring forward their stories, authorities continue to investigate the extent of his abuses.
Preska ruled Wednesday that Guiffre’s lawyers had improperly gained access to certain documents since they were covered by an old protective order. The judge ruled that the lawyers must therefore destroy these documents and that they cannot keep copies, according to Law&Crime.
The judge also noted that the law firm Cooper & Kirk must provide proof that the documents have been destroyed, Newsweek notes.
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If we had a real media, then this would be a lead story on July 2nd. Instead it was covered up.
The Judge is obviously worried.
The files will be selectively used to smear certain targets.
The judge is ordering these files destroyed.
The originals are reatined by the court, and are perfectly safe.
The copies that Guiffre's lawyers have will be destroyed.
The originals stay put, under restricted access.
Preska was on Dubya's short list of Supreme Court candidates, and he nominated her for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
She doesn't appear to be a fly-by-night political type.
This was already posted on July 2nd: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3861488/posts
A court orders all records of Epstein/Maxwell victims be destroyed.
IMO if they were wrongly obtained, the judge has no right to order them destroyed, to me that is out of line - judge tampering with evidence or at the very least ordering destroyed items that do not belong to the judge, so he has no right to have them destroyed.
If anything they get returned to where ever they came from or whomever now has authority over the things from whereever they csame from.
Probably the special ones of moochelle and some under-age gorillas...
One must ask ,”in what bizzarro world does a court order evidence generated by the court destroyed for any reason?” HIGHLY SUSPECT.
Lawyers in a civil case were granted access to highly confidential records relating to an ongoing criminal investigation. They were given copies of those records for use only in that one civil case. They were then caught showing the records to other people for other purposes, so the judge ordered them to destroy the copies they had been given. (The originals are still with the prosecutors.)
Nothing nefarious here; a routine application of the civil discovery rules.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3861359/posts?page=35#35
Let the Wookie win...
Does anyone know where those boxes are now?
In ther homes of FBI agents would be my guess.
The originals are reatined by the court, and are perfectly safe.
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Just like Epstein........
That Shrub the Younger appointed her is reason enough to distrust.
whats the odds the lawyers keep a copy? lol..
Hmmmm, no, I think she looks more like Laura Bush.
OMG!! Our JUST US system is BROKEN and OWNED by the LEFT!
TAKE THIS TO THE SUPREME COURT! not that they would do the right thing....very sad.
Epsteins files are with wieners laptop
Can’t wait to see the judge’s new yacht.
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