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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 549-1
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Filed 12/17/21
settlement or financial incent
not received under the NPA, so
that would be relevant that th
respect to the NPA.
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see any theory of
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no matter how a witness who has a
those benefits are
bias
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relevance,
it would
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be substantially outweighed by
prejudice from introducing the
a significant risk of
NPA.
instructed on what th
need to have its terms explain
ed.
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non-prosecution agreement is,
In particular, NPA,
403
The jury would need to be
and would
of
course, is controversial and complicated and has a complicated
background. There's a risk of undue delay, juror confusion,
and improper suggestions of sympathy or nullification made to
the jury on the basis of the NPA.
I will be clear,
it's not clear to me the NPA could
never be admitted, but the rationale now provided by the
defense in its papers does not
bal 401 and 403
facto
ancing of
Fourth guidance:
are likely not relevant and th
government didn't indict Ms.
investigation, and
when it indicted Jeffrey
justify admission based on the
rs.
erefore
inadmissible.
The government's charging decisions
The
Maxwell by the end of
the government didn't indict Ms.
Epstein originally in New
the Florida
Maxwell
York. As
the Second Circuit stated in White,
charging decisions can be
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