Georgia Sex Offenders Win Fight Over ‘No Trick-or-Treat’ Signs
A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that Georgia sheriff’s deputies cannot place “no trick-or-treat” warning signs in the yards of three registered sex offenders this Halloween.
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Lawyer for Epstein Accuser Ejected From Dershowitz Suit
The woman who implicated Alan Dershowitz in Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile ring must find new counsel as she sues the famed lawyer for defamation, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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Dylan Stevens sue the Clay County (Mo.) Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, et al., in federal court, claiming it wrongfully prosecuted and incarcerated him for 17 years after falsely labeling him a “child molester” because while he was 18 and in jail he exchanged love letters with his 15-year-old girlfriend.
Read moreNJ Fights to Keep Tabs on Qualifying Sex Offenders
A lawyer for New Jersey arguing Monday before the state Supreme Court called it vital to public safety that certain sex offenders register as such for life.
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A man, now 19, sued the Youth Development Institute and the doctor who “prepared and issued a written report diagnosing him as ‘Sexual Abuse (Perpetrator)’” because when he was 15 he exchanged “consensual text messages with a female classmate that her parents deemed inappropriate;” he seeks punitive damages, in Maricopa County Court.
Read moreSecond Circuit Backs Home Checks for Sex Offenders
A Long Island sex offender who faced home visits from a private nonprofit contracted by his county did not endure an unconstitutional search, the Second Circuit affirmed Wednesday.
Read moreSealed Jeffrey Epstein Files Potentially Implicate Hundreds
Shortly before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in federal prison, a federal court unsealed a vast trove of files implicating heads of state, elected officials and other elite figures in the wealthy financier’s sex-trafficking web. This list could radically expand should the remainder of sealed files become public, a federal judge heard Wednesday.
Read moreJeffrey Epstein Case Is Over — in a Legal Sense
A judge formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, with a final tribute to the women who spoke out against the late financier.
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Epstein Accuser Says Prince Andrew Should ‘Come Clean’
One of the many women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse has kept Britain’s Prince Andrew uncomfortably at the center of the ongoing investigation.
Read moreEpstein Victims Recount Sordid Abuses in Open Court
More than a dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse network gave voice to their traumatic stories in New York federal court Tuesday, two weeks after the finance tycoon hanged himself while awaiting trial in the neighboring jail.
Read moreDragon Con Co-Founder’s Legal Saga Marked by Strange Twists
In the nearly two decades since a co-founder of Dragon Con was accused of molesting teenage boys, a strange legal odyssey has unfolded, including a proposed move to Israel, a trial delay because of a presidential election and an extradition by air ambulance. Now, Ed Kramer faces new charges that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Read moreBritain’s Prince Andrew Denies Witnessing Epstein Abuse
Britain’s Prince Andrew insisted on Saturday that “at no stage” during his friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein did he “witness… any behavior of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest.”
Read moreEpstein Rape Probe
The chief Paris prosecutor announced Friday that he will investigate the rape of minors, age 15 and older, as well as other charges linked to the case of the late wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Read moreAlleged Epstein Victim Details Green Card Marriage
As sordid Jeffrey Epstein stories pile up in lawsuits against the late sex offender’s estate, a new case filed Tuesday says Epstein forced one victim to marry a noncitizen recruiter in his vast sex-trafficking enterprise.
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Epstein Signed Will 2 Days Before Killing Himself
Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier’s fortune.
Read moreEpstein Killed Himself, Says NYC Medical Examiner
A New York City medical examiner ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell death a suicide Friday, saying her autopsy showed that the millionaire sex offender hanged himself.
Read moreEpstein Victims Ask Court to Nullify Florida Plea Deal
A lawyer for victims of Jeffrey Epstein claims in Florida federal court that the wealthy sex offender’s death in prison has removed a final obstacle to rescinding plea-deal protections that shielded conspirators in his teenage prostitution ring from prosecution.
Read moreEpstein Death Shifts Focus to Possible Conspirators
In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, federal prosecutors in New York have shifted their focus to possible charges against anyone who assisted or enabled him in his rampant sexual abuse of underage girls.
Read moreJeffrey Epstein Case Will Outlive Its Key Defendant
Jeffrey Epstein died in an apparent suicide before he could stand trial, but the investigation and litigation over his alleged sex-trafficking empire shows no signs of abating.
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Epstein Autopsy Performed, but Details Not Yet Released
The details of how Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell over the weekend have yet to be released, but medical officials performed an autopsy on the high-profile inmate accused of sexually abusing underage girls for years.
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