Legal debate rages over meaning of “potentially defendant”.
The meaning of the word was the subject of legal discussion at the hearing “potential defendant”Judge Kaplan was informed by Brettler. “someone who was not named as a defendant but could have been”.
Ms Giuffre, also known by Virginia Roberts, would be a potential defendant. “claims against at the time that she filed the lawsuit”In 2009, Epstein was disgraced as a financier. His ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was accused of procuring teenage girls for Epstein last week, was convicted.
The judge responded with ” “potential”He could not pronounce the word “Bretler” “find any meaning at all”.
A second question was raised by the lawyer for the duke. He claimed that there was insufficient information to support the allegations against him. This information should be made public now, and not after the royal’s discovery request.
He stated that Ms. Giuffre should be locked up in a story right now.
“Not sometime in the future after she conducts discovery and figures out where the chips may fall… she needs to allege in her complaint against Prince Andrew when he supposedly abused her – I’d like even a date, a month.”