James PATTERSON 4 Fa Kennedy Smith. The prosecutors presented Epstein a j well-known legal expert choice: plead to more serious state felony charges (that : team warned me that the | would result in 2 years’ imprisonment, registration as a | good man to serve time sexual offender, and restitution for the victims) or else : book if we continued tc prepare for a federal felony trial. ; office systematically con: What followed was a year-long assault on the prose- A ment, and when we di cution and the prosecutors. I use the word assault inten- ; 4 appealed to Washington. tionally, as the defense in this case was more aggressive d q The defense strategy than any which I, or the prosecutors in my office, had P 4 Defense counsel investiga previously encountered. Mr. Epstein hired an army of a q their families, looking for legal superstars: Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, for- q q provide a basis for disqual mer Judge and then Pepperdine Law Dean Kenneth Starr, ! 7 enntee 46 an. Hlecieeiah former Deputy Assistant to the President and then Kirk- Be 4 eliminating the individua : land & Ellis Partner Jay Lefkowitz, and several others, e 4 and thus most qualified to including prosecutors who had formerly worked in the 4 4 Iihood for success: Deas U.S. Attorney’s Office and in the Child Exploitation and a 4 least two prosecutors. I Obscenity Section of the Justice Department. Defense a rejected, these arguments. attorneys next requested a meeting with me to challenge 3 4 Despite the army of att the prosecution and the terms previously presented by a 4 the terms first presented the prosecutors in their meeting with Mr. Black. The q ; meeting. On June 30, 2008 prosecution team and I met with defense counsel in Fall 4 . appeal to Washington D.C 2007, and 1 reaffirmed the office's position: two years, 4 guilty in state court. He wi registration and restitution, or trial. : ’ onment, register as a sexua Over the next several months, the defense team pre- q | restitution to t