James PATTERSON 1 Ba Kennedy Smith. The prosecutors: presented Epstein a | well-known legal expert choice: plead to more serious state felony charges (that 1 feam warned! me that thi | would result in 2 years’ imprisonment, registration as a 1 good man to serve time: sexual offender, and restitution for the victims) or else | book: if we contiouedae: prepare for a federal felony trial. q office systematically con: What followed was a year-long assault on the prose- j 4 ment, and when we di cution and the prosecutors. I use the word assault inten- ; appealed to Washington. . tionally, as the defense in this case was more aggressive a 4 The defense strategy ° than any which I, or the prosecutors in my office, had i 4 Defense counsel investiga previously encountered. Mr. Epstein hired an army of 4 their families, looking for legal superstars: Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, for- 4 a provide a basis for disqual mer Judge and then Pepperdine Law Dean Kenneth Starr, | Y 7 ecutor is an effective (th former Deputy Assistant to the President and then Kirk- x a eliminating the individua land & Ellis Partner Jay Lefkowitz, and several others, q : and’ tho inner qualifiedas including prosecutors who had formerly worked in the q : lisond fur suecess. Delexe US. Attorney’s Office and in the Child Exploitation and as 7 least two prosecutors. I Obscenity Section of the Justice Department. Defense EB q rejected, these arguments. attorneys next requested a meeting with me to challenge a q Despite the army of att the prosecution and the terms previously presented by g ‘ the terms first presented the prosecutors in their meeting with Mr. Black. The F i meeting. On June 30, 2008 prosecution team and I met with defense counsel in Fall ' appeal to Washington D.C 2007, and I reaffirmed the office’s position: two years, 4 q guilty in state court. He w: registration and restitution, or trial. q | onment, register aa a seiita Over the next several months, the defense team pre- 4 7 Pestitut