TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – For the second time, lawyers representing one of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s numerous underage victims tried to persuade an appellate court Thursday that an agreement hatched by federal prosecutors and the late financier’s attorneys violated a victims’ rights law.
Circuit Court of Appeals in April concluded that the agreement did not violate the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act.
Prosecutors argue that the victims’ rights act does not apply to Wild and other victims because Epstein was never charged with a federal crime.
A victory would allow her to assert and have her rights under the victims’ rights act to be considered, Cassell, a University of Utah law professor, said.
“Now you say the government says that these victims have no CVRA (Crime Victims’ Rights Act) rights.