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Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document20_ Filed 07/16/19 Page 22 of 24 ae j782epsC kjc 1 proveable. That is the answer to the obstruction issue. 2 THE COURT: All right. So you want to adjourn the 3 detention hearing until Thursday? 4 MR. WEINGARTEN: Yes. 5 THE COURT: All right. Is there any objection to that 6 from the government? I think under the statute he is entitled 7 to three days. 8 MR. ROSSMILLER: That is, of course, fine, your Honor. 9 I think we would like just a very brief opportunity to 10 respond to some of those arguments so that they don't sort of 11 hang with the court for three days unresponded to. 12 THE COURT: All right. Go ahead. 13 MR. ROSSMILLER: Just very briefly, your Honor, 14 think a lot of that discussion was entirely orthogonal to the 15 issues here. 16 But just very briefly, with respect to the charges 17 here, there is simply no force required for underage victims. 18 A grand jury has properly returned an indictment, and these are 19 fact issues that are being presented in large part. 20 Certainly the concept of child prostitution is, 2] frankly, offensive and not recognized in federal law. The idea 22 that children can consent to sex and be prostitutes is beyond 23 the realm of federal law which contemplates trafficking, which 24 is what has been charged here. Mr. Weingarten is free to argue 25 to a jury that trafficking minors was only statutory rape or SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, (212) 805-0300 PG DOJ-OGR-00000427