EFTA00721973.pdf

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, FOURTH DISTRICT JEFFREY EPSTEIN, CASE NO. PALM BEACH COUNTY Petitioner, L.T. CASE NO. 2008 CF 009381A v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. / MOTION TO FILE UNDER SEAL Petitioner/defendant, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, moves this Court for an order allowing him to file the September 24, 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement ("Agreement") and October 29, 2007 Addendum to the Non-Prosecution Agreement ("Addendum"), which are the subject of his contemporaneously filed emergency petition for certiorari and emergency motion to review denial of stay, under seal. 1. The Agreement and Addendum were executed by petitioner/defendant and the United States Attorney's Office in September 2007. They are attached in the sealed envelope. 2. The Agreement contains a confidentiality clause, precluding it from I EFTA00721973 being disclosed to third parties or made part of any public record. Federal District Judge Marra has twice ordered the documents not disclosed to third parties. 3. Fifteenth Judicial Circuit Judge Deborah Pucillo ordered Mr. Epstein's attorney to file the documents under seal during his plea conference on June 30, 2008. 4. On June 25, 2009, Judge Colbath granted non-parties' motions to vacate the order sealing records and ordered them disclosed. 5. On June 26, 2009, Judge Colbath denied petitioner's motion for stay, and ordered the Clerk of Court to make the documents available for disclosure at noon on Thursday, July 2, 2009, unless this Court granted a stay. 6. It is necessary that this Court review the Agreement and Addendum in conjunction with these proceedings. To protect the purpose of the petition for writ of certiorari pending before this Court, petitioner asks to file the documents under seal. Accordingly, petitioner requests that this Court grant this motion and allow 2 EFTA00721974 him to file the Agreement and Addendum, which are separate from the appendix to his emergency petition and motion for review, under seal. I HEREBY CERTIFY that a copy of the foregoing has been sent by email and Federal Express this 30,a. day of June, 2009, to: JEFFREY H. SLOMAN JUDITH STEVENSON ARCO U.S. Attorney's Office-Southern District State Attorney's Office-West Palm Beach 500 South Australian Avenue, Suite 400 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, FL 33401 West Palm Beach, FL 33401 WILLIAM J. BERGER DEANNA K. SHULLMAN ROTHSTEIN ROSENFELDT ADLER 400 North Ashley Drive, Suite 1100 401 East Las Olas Boulevard, Suite 1650 P. O. Box 2602 (33601) Fort Lauderdale, FL 33394 Tampa, FL 33602 Counsel for E.W. Counsel for The Palm Beach Post SPENCER T. KUVIN HONORABLE JEFFREY COLBATH LEOPOLD-KUVIN, P.A. Palm Beach County Courthouse 2925 PGA Boulevard, Suite 200 205 North Dixie Highway Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410 Room 11F Counsel for B.B. West Palm Beach, FL 33401 ROBERT D. CRITTON of BURMAN, CRITTON, LUTTIER & COLEMAN 515 North Flagler Drive, Suite 400 West Palm Beach, FL 33401 (561) 842-2820 and JACK A. GOLDBERGER of ATTERBURY, GOLDBERGER & WEISS, P.A. 250 Australian Avenue South, Suite 1400 West Palm Beach, FL 33401 (561) 659-8300 and 3 EFTA00721975 JANE KREUSLER-WALSH and BARBARA J. COMPIANI of KREUSLER-WALSH, COMPIANI & VARGAS, P.A. 501 South Flagler Drive, Suite 503 West Palm Beach, FL 33401-5913 (561)659-5455 Counsel for Petitioner By: . 29-12.1--/ ( rNE WALSH orida Bar No. 272371 4 EFTA00721976