A lawyer fighting for victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring wants a second chance to convince the 11th Circuit that prosecutors violated federal law by keeping the wealthy financier’s plea arrangement concealed from the girls he abused.
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Victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring were denied relief Tuesday in the 11th Circuit, where an appellate panel stonewalled attempts to throw out a nonprosecution deal that gives immunity to the wealthy financier’s aides.
Read moreA county court in Milwaukee denied Dane County Circuit Judge Jill Karofsky’s request for a temporary injunction to block the airing of TV ads she claims are defamatory. The state Supreme Court candidate claims two conservative interest groups made ads that falsely accuse her of being soft on crime regarding two sex-offender cases.
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New Jersey gives sex offenders their privacy back if they’ve kept a clean record for 15 years, but the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that one infraction keeps deregistration off the table permanently.
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After federal prosecutors in New York revealed Britain’s Prince Andrew will not cooperate with the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, experts called their surprise rebuke of the royal family member extraordinarily rare.
Read moreA federal judge struck a major blow Friday to a Michigan sex-offender registration law, declaring large portions of the law unconstitutional and that the law cannot apply at all to offenders whose last offense was before 2011.
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More than 100 child protection organizations on Thursday urged Facebook to halt plans for strong encryption of all its platforms, saying that would allow predators to operate freely.
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A House subcommittee is investigating whether popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble allow minors and sex offenders to use their services.
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The Seventh Circuit appeared likely Tuesday to overturn Indiana’s sex offender registration requirement, as it applies to people only required to register because they moved away from the state then moved back.
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One of Jeffrey Epstein’s prominent accusers asked a federal judge Monday for permission to boost defamation claims against Alan Dershowitz with fodder from his new book “Guilt by Association.”
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Attorneys for the victims of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein say Prince Andrew should speak to U.S. investigators immediately, after the prince withdrew from public duties over what he called his “ill-judged association” with the convicted pedophile.
Read moreA lawyer for New Jersey urged the state Supreme Court on Monday for a strict reading of a law that lets registered sex offenders off the registry so long as they keep a clean record for 15 years.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreDylan 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 moreA 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.
Read moreA 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 moreA 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 moreShortly 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 moreA 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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