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Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document 32 Filed 07/18/19 Page 1 of 33
USDCSDNY
DOCUMENT
ELECTRONICALLY FILED
UNITED ST ATES DISTRICT COURT
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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UNITED STA TES OF AMERICA,
Government, 19 CR. 490 (RMB)
- against - DECISION & ORDER
REMANDING DEFENDANT
JEFFREY EPSTEIN,
Defendant.
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A. Background
This ruling follows the Court's bail hearing held on July 15, 2019. The issue before the
Court is whether the Defendant should continue to be remanded (incarcerated) pending trial or
whether he should be granted release while the case proceeds. No matter the answer to this
question and no matter what has been said in Court in analyzing the matter, this is a criminal
case and the Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, is innocent of the Federal charges alleged against him
now and until such time, if it comes, that a jury or the Court finds (after fair and thorough
consideration of the facts and the law) that he is guilty. Transcript, dated July 8, 2019
("7/8/19 Tr."), at 2-3; Transcript, dated July 15, 2019 ("7/15/19 Tr."), at 40. It should also be
borne in mind that the Court has not (yet) been presented with a motion to dismiss the
Indictment.
This is a federal
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