whoever these individuals are who thought it was appropriate, brianna, to have people waiting for him, have underage girls waiting for him when he touched down in palm beach or at his upper east side home allegedly, to have them waiting to actually be abuse victims, people who were above age and able to become victim refers. these people can now be under the purview of prosecution. that s a very great thing. also one of the reasons why it was so important to have victims be aware of the deal beforehand, could they give information about who may be an unknown accomplice or conspirator in a sex trafficking ring. in florida, they weren t given that chance to even say there s a plea offer, there s one been made and accepted. well, in new york, now they ll have their day in court to at least have the ability to have notice and perhaps have a voice. up to 45 years in prison. we ll follow this. laura coates, thank you so much. to the 2020 presidential race now and an apology from joe bide
they are embarrassing. this is a plea deal that says you take a class and pay a fine and charges go away. a lot of legal experts say this is a case that they might be able to beat and the reason for that is if you have this tape out there and you don t have audio that says if you do this i get this then perhaps there is a way to say it is consensual. that would be the argument. they are not arguing that he wasn t there. they are arguing that perhaps what happened there during that particular time was consensual. talk about why the plea offer. some legal experts say perhaps prosecutors don t have the case they thought they had. so another reason for perhaps not going with this, not agreeing to this is because even though the charges would go
and the victim can go into court and say judge, i don t like this. i don t feel like my rights are being protected and vindicated. that s what is supposed to happen. that s what is supposed to happen and the judge accepts that plea offer over the victim s objection, the victim can appeal that decision. so we had to implement this in 2004. we had to train our prosecutors to make sure you protect every single right the cvra grants to victims. now, we have acosta, apparently in what looks like these ugly back room deals, between acosta as the u.s. attorney, in florida, at the time, and epstein s lawyers, to not only cover up the horrific crimes that epstein had commitmented, i mean sex trafficking, underaged girls, i mean these are some of the most vulnerable victims in our country. but they lied to, acosta lied to the victims about it. don t worry, there will be a federal prosecution. we are going to vindicate your rights. and then he never did. so here, i think is the
with a growing sense of nausea. it is a disgusting reprehensible thing that happened in florida. walk us through what happened this week, all of this centered on the federal crime victims rights act. how does it play in this? and what does it mean for jeffrey epstein, and the secretary of labor who oversaw this. back in 2004, the crime victims rights act, the cvra as we called it, was enacted in the law and gave victims unprecedented rights in the criminal justice system, which we all think, i m not going to lie, would he were a little bit fearful of it at first because it used to be there was the prosecutor and the defense attorney and those were the two people who had rights so to speak in the criminal litigation and now 2004, victims had rights and dramatic rights. for example, this is how the acosta epstein thing comes into play. as part of the victim s bill of rights in the cvra, a victim can actually object to a plea offer that the prosecutor extends to the defense attorney.
plea offer a couple of months ago. we realize that if a prosecutor will give you a plea offer they had information to convict you in some way. it is elongation. miller gives another example where you know if mueller is still interested and there must be more information to come. roger stone, when they raided his home and pulled out electronic devices that takes time to review. we are in far longer period of time. do you think there could be more charges? there could be. it is a way of correcting the initial indictment to add more charges. some times to take away to allow the grand jury to take away and change their charges.