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regarding the parties’ intent. To the extent that extrinsic materials do not make the
parties’ intent clear, the Court is obligated to ma
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intended to insulate defendants from prosecution which they had no reason to
foresee.”), aff'd, 867 F.2d 1425 (2d Cir. 1988).
Unlike st
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its face immunizes assistants who worked for Epstein out of his New York office.
For example, Leslie Groff worked for Epstein out of the
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them “sufficiently distinct.” A contrary rule—allowing the Government to gainsay
a non-prosecution promise in plea agreement by hopping t
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other offenses that were the subject of the FBI and U.S. Attormney’s Office
investigation, and any offenses that arose from the related g
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Even if, as appellants contend, the Southern District charges result
from the same conspiratorial agreement that underlay the charges
d
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this result would bring the Eleventh Circuit in line with every circuit that has
directly confronted this question (other than the Second
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improper because it conflicted with both federal and New York choice-of-law rules
and unfair because it unsettled the parties’ reasonable
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other USAOs. See Annabi, 771 F.2d at 671; Alessi, 544 F.2d at 1154; Papa, 533
F.2d at 823-25. That is not the case here; Defendant produc
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precedent may have been doctrinally flawed, expanding it into “new...context[s]”
would be “a disfavored judicial activity”) (quoting Zigl
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agreements, which do not require resort to Annabi’s canon of construction),* or for
points unrelated to whether an agreement with one USA
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(“promises made by an [AUSA]” in a plea agreement “bind all agents of the
United States government”); Thomas v. I.N.S., 35 F.3d 1332 (9th
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Annabi is also out of step with the law of this Circuit. It is well-settled that
“we determine whether a plea agreement has been breached
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no such promise was made. See 405 U.S. 150, 154 (1972) (“The prosecutor’s
office is an entity and as such it is the spokesman for the Gov
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Papa, 533 F.2d 815 (2d Cir. 1976)). But, as Gebbie explained, Annabi misread
this Court’s precedent and fashioned an “illogical” rule out
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this result was highly counterintuitive, acknowledging that “[a] plea agreement
whereby a federal prosecutor agrees that ‘the Government’
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untenable reading without even granting Defendant’s request for discovery or a
hearing to determine the scope of the agreement.
To suppo
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B. Appellant may enforce the NPA as a third-party beneficiary.
Appellant is a third-party beneficiary of the NPA, and for that reason ha
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That this was a manipulation designed to prejudice the jury against Maxwell was
eloquently proven by Carolyn who wasted no time in granti
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SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT
1. The NPA immunized Maxwell from prosecution for all counts. Maxwell has
standing to enforce the NPA as a third
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INTRODUCTION
The Government prosecuted Ms. Maxwell (“Maxwell”) as a proxy for
Jeffrey Epstein (“Epstein”). It did so to satisfy public o
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court conducted a hearing on March 8, 2022 (A264), after which it denied
defendant’s motion. A318.
On June 28, 2022, the court dismisse
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STATEMENT OF THE CASE
By a second superseding indictment, Indictment No.1:20-cr-00330 (AJN)
(A114),’ filed in the United States District
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STATEMENT OF THE ISSUES PRESENTED FOR REVIEW
1. Whether the District Court misapplied U.S. v. Annabi, 771 F.2d 670 (2d Cir.
1985) (per
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2. The McDonough Test: The Second Prong... 66
E. The District Court Abused its Discretion in the Manner
in Which it Conducted the Post-Tri
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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United States v. Guerrero, 910 F.3d 72 (2d Cir. 2018). Here,
the parties and the probation dep
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A-402
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captured the core of criminality charged in the Indictment, and t
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A-398
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not entitled to the inference that all absent evidence would have
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A-399
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defense witnesses died three years or more prior to indictment);
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request a continuance or object to Jane’s testimony until the charging
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A-395
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that the Government intentionally delayed bringing charges for an
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A-391
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ran the risk of moving the jury away from consideration of the co
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A-390
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convictions on Counts Two and Four, erroneously implying that suc
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A-385
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part of the same “set of discrete facts consistent with the charg
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A-381
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justice so requires.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 33(a). Such a motion is gra
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A-380
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Banki, 685 F.3d 99, 118 (2d Cir. 2012) (quoting United States v.
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A-379
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prejudicial variance. For the following reasons, the Court disagr
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A-373
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overturn any of the factual findings made by the jury” —it means
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A-367
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roles played by those participants, significantly favors the Defe
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A-366
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*11 (concluding that conspiracies to defraud the United States and
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A-363
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(summary order) (citing United States v. Korfant, 771 F.2d 660, 66
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A. Applicable law
The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendme
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A-361
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eighteen, and aiding and abetting the same, in violation of 18 U.S
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A-358
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DOCUMENT
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ELECTRONICALLY FILED
DOC #;
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A-353
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personal memories, some from decades earlier and some involving s
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A-331
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the juror for cause, but not so great as to make mandatory a pres
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A-298
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Juror ID: §0
sincere TE PARTS TO
If yes, is there anything about
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The Honorable Alison J. Nathan
December 27, 2021
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Despite th
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The Honorable Alison J. Nathan
December 27, 2021
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Constructi