State of Florida v. Jeffrey E. Epstein — Palm Beach County Case No. 50-2006-CF-009454-AXX-MB

Case No. 50-2006-CF-009454-AXXX-MB was filed in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida, in 2006 after the Town of Palm Beach Police Department referred its eleven-month investigation (PBPD case 05-368, opened March 14, 2005) to the State Attorney's Office under State Attorney Barry E. Krischer. PBPD had recommended multiple felony sex offenses against minors, but the State Attorney's Office instead presented a narrow set of facts to a Palm Beach County grand jury, which returned a single felony count under Florida Statute § 796.07 (solicitation of prostitution). Records in the corpus show the case was assigned to Criminal Division "W," first before Circuit Judge Sandra K. McSorley and later before Circuit Judge Jeffrey J. Colbath, with the defense represented by Jack A. Goldberger of Atterbury, Goldberger & Weiss, P.A., and Robert D. Critton of Burman, Critton, Luttier & Coleman, and the State represented by Assistant State Attorneys Lanna Belohlavek (later Belohlavek/Belohalavek in the docket) and Barbara Burns (EFTA02728761, EFTA02728745, EFTA02729597, EFTA02823238).

The state docket through 2006-2008 reflects a series of agreed orders continuing case disposition (December 2006 continuance to a March 2007 case-disposition setting; March 2007 continuance for an additional sixty days; subsequent continuances and resets), a defense-filed waiver of speedy trial dated December 6, 2006, and pre-trial scheduling notices of jury trial for January 7, 2008 and July 8, 2008 (EFTA02728745, EFTA02728924, EFTA02823238, EFTA02823241, EFTA02823254, EFTA02823293). On June 30, 2008, with the federal Non-Prosecution Agreement already in hand, the defendant appeared before Judge Colbath and entered a negotiated plea on the consolidated state cases. The signed plea sheet preserved in the corpus records the disposition: in case 06CF009454-AMB the defendant was sentenced to twelve months in the Palm Beach County Detention Facility, and in companion case 08CF009381-AMB he was sentenced to a consecutive six months followed by twelve months of community control; he was adjudicated guilty, designated a Sexual Offender pursuant to Florida Statute § 943.0435, ordered to provide a DNA sample, and prohibited from unsupervised contact with minors (EFTA01306347). The plea-hearing transcript captures Judge Colbath colloquy with Goldberger about the defendant's residence, employment plan, and probation reporting (EFTA00180735). A second-tier charge — "Procuring Person Under 18 for Prostitution" — also appears on the negotiated plea sheet, listed as a second-degree felony with adjudication accepted (EFTA01306347).

The case did not end with the plea. In 2009 the Palm Beach Post (through Thomas, LoCicero & Bralow attorneys James B. Lake and Deanna K. Shullman), along with two non-party victims identified in the docket as E.W. and B.B. (represented by Spencer T. Kuvin of Leopold-Kuvin and William J. Berger of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler), moved to intervene and unseal records. Judge Colbath, by order dated June 26, 2009, denied Epstein's motion to stay disclosure of a non-prosecution agreement and addendum and ordered the Clerk of Court to make those documents available for disclosure at noon on July 2, 2009 (EFTA02823468, EFTA02729597). Epstein took an interlocutory appeal to Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal (No. 4D09-2554), which on September 2, 2009, in a per curiam opinion authored by a panel of Judges Hazouri, Damoorgian, and Levine, treated the petition for writ of certiorari as a full appeal and affirmed; the appellate mandate issued September 18, 2009 (EFTA00724596, EFTA02823654). The 2006 state file also became a key building block in the federal CVRA litigation Doe v. United States (S.D. Fla. 08-cv-80736) and in companion victim civil suits removed from state court to federal court that same summer (EFTA00183868, EFTA00234224, EFTA02750017, EFTA02750268).

The corpus carries 71 EFTA-stamped documents and 80 emails linked to Palm Beach County case 502006CF009454, drawn principally from DOJ datasets 9, 10, 11, and 12 of the January 2026 EFTA release, with cross-stamped copies bearing SDNY_GM Bates numbers (e.g., SDNY_GM_00330097, SDNY_GM_00330113, SDNY_GM_00330216, SDNY_GM_00331886) indicating the same Florida-state filings were re-produced in 2019-2021 federal proceedings. The sampled subset is dominated by the working state-court file: agreed orders continuing case disposition (EFTA02728745, EFTA02728924, EFTA02823241), a defense-filed Waiver of Speedy Trial dated December 6, 2006 (EFTA02823238), Clerk-issued Notices of Hearing setting jury trial for January 7, 2008 and July 8, 2008 (EFTA02823254, EFTA02823293), correspondence from victims' counsel Stuart S. Mermelstein of Herman & Mermelstein P.A. requesting hearings on a Motion for Protective Order before Judge Sandra McSorley and a March 31, 2008 fax noticing withdrawal of that motion (EFTA02728761, EFTA02728846, EFTA02823304), and a Disposition/Sentencing form Form 611 EDP for case 502006CF009454 captioned "Felony Offer to Commit Prostitution" recording the June 10, 2009 disposition entry (EFTA02823444).

The single most consequential document in the sample is the negotiated plea sheet for the consolidated state cases, signed and sentenced June 30, 2008, recording adjudication of guilt, the twelve-month plus six-month consecutive sentences, the Sexual Offender designation under § 943.0435, the no-unsupervised-contact-with-minors special condition, and the DNA-sample requirement — bearing native EFTA stamp EFTA01306347 alongside cross-stamps SONY_GM_00174828 and EFTA_00196481 from later productions. A 128-page plea/sentencing transcript captures Goldberger's representations to the court about Epstein's home at 358 El Brillo Way and the probation officer's commitments to verify the defendant's address and employment before release (EFTA00180735). The unsealing fight is preserved in Judge Colbath's June 26, 2009 Order Denying Motion to Stay Disclosure (EFTA02823468); a parallel five-page omnibus order resolving E.W.'s motion to vacate the sealing order, the Palm Beach Post's motions to intervene and for access, B.B.'s motions to intervene, and Epstein's motion to make court records confidential (EFTA02729597); the Fourth DCA's September 2, 2009 per curiam opinion in 4D09-2554 (EFTA00724596); and the Fourth DCA's September 18, 2009 mandate addressed to Sharon R. Bock, Clerk of the Palm Beach County Circuit Court, listing as cc recipients counsel for the Palm Beach Post, the State Attorney, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and former U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta (EFTA02823654). The 2008 removal of the parallel civil action Doe v. Epstein (Palm Beach County 50-2008-CA-006596) to the Southern District of Florida as 08-cv-80804-KAM is documented at EFTA02750017, EFTA00234224, and EFTA00175521. The corpus does not contain the 2006 grand jury transcripts, the State Attorney's Office's internal charging memoranda, or the unredacted text of every sealed exhibit; portions of the FBI-derived file linked to case 502006CF009454 carry FOI/PA Deleted Page Information Sheets cataloging hundreds of withheld pages from the broader investigative record (DOJ-OGR-00028968).