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(Rev. 5-8-81) Mount Clipping in Space Below) Women want sex plea deal unsealed Their attorneys will ask a judge to open Jeffrey Epsiein’s records. By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — When wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm Beach pleaded guilty last year to pro- curing teens for prostitution, his cé case detoured around local and pays 3 state rules regarding the sealing of court documents. | At a plea conference on ) the state charges, a judge, a defense lawyer and a pros-- ecutor huddled at the bench and decided that a deal Epstein Epstein had-struck with federal prosecu- tors to avoid charges should be sealed, according to a transcript of the hearing. And so it was, But Florida rules of judicial admin- istration, as well as rules of the Palm Beach County court’ system, require public notification that a court document ‘has been or will be sealed, meaning kept ' from public view. The rules also require a ‘ judge to find a significant reason to seal, See EPSTEIN, 4A > See past coverage of Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex ‘scandals, PalmBeachPost.com/epsteln (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1A, 4A Palm Beach Post 6/10/2009 Women want sex plea deal unsealed 4 Character or Classification: Submitting Office: 31E-MM-108062 MM Indexing: # ood s08 B/E- WH - (08062 -215