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#CrimeVictimsRightsAct

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People (7)

  • Alexander Acosta Alexander Acosta is the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who approved Jeffrey Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement and resigned as Secretary of Labor in July 2019.
  • Ann Marie Villafana Assistant U.S. Attorney in West Palm Beach who opened the 2006 federal Epstein investigation, drafted a 60-count indictment, negotiated and signed the 2007 non-prosecution agreement, and left the office in August 2019.
  • Bradley Edwards Bradley Edwards is a Fort Lauderdale lawyer who represented Epstein's victims from 2008, litigated the Crime Victims' Rights Act case pro bono, and was sued by Epstein, who later apologized.
  • Courtney Wild Courtney Wild is an Epstein survivor who, as Jane Doe 1, brought the 2008 Crime Victims' Rights Act challenge to his non-prosecution agreement, which ended when the Supreme Court denied review in 2022.
  • Jay Howell Jacksonville victims' lawyer, founding executive director of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who represented Jeffrey Epstein's victims in Doe v. United States and Epstein v. Rothstein.
  • Kenneth Marra Kenneth Marra is a U.S. district judge in West Palm Beach, appointed in 2002, who presided over the Epstein victims' Crime Victims' Rights Act case and the Chiquita paramilitary-financing litigation.
  • Paul Cassell Utah law professor, former Reagan Justice Department official and former federal judge who, after leaving the bench in 2007, represented Epstein's victims in the Crime Victims' Rights Act case against the United States.

Events (2)

  • Doe v. United States Crime Victims' Rights Act case filed in 2008 by Epstein victims over his secret non-prosecution agreement, which won a 2019 violation finding but no remedy, and failed 7-4 before the en banc Eleventh Circuit.
  • Epstein non-prosecution agreement The September 24, 2007 agreement in which federal prosecutors in Miami dropped a drafted indictment of Jeffrey Epstein and immunized his co-conspirators in exchange for two state guilty pleas.

Concepts (1)

  • Crime Victims' Rights Act Federal statute enacted in 2004 as Title I of the Justice for All Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. 3771, whose conferral right was the basis of the Epstein victims' challenge to his non-prosecution agreement.