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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 789 Filed 07/22/25 Page1of4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 20 Cr. 330 (PAE) -\V- ORDER GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant.   PAUL A. ENGELMAYER, District Judge: The Court has received a four-page motion entitled “United States’ Motion to Unseal Grand Jury Transcripts,” which was filed with the Clerk’s Office of this District on July 18, 2025. See Dkt. 785 (“Government Motion”). The motion asks that the Court “unseal the underlying grand jury transcripts” in this matter, “subject to appropriate redactions of victim- related and other personal identifying information.” Jd. at 1-2.! The Court intends to resolve this motion expeditiously. However, the Court cannot rule on the motion without additional submissions. Specifically: Memorandum of law: Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) codified the practice, “older than our Nation itself,’ that proceedings before a grand jury shall generally remain secret.” In re Petition of Craig, 131 F.3d 99, 102 (2d Cir. 1997) (quoting Jn re Biaggi, 478 F.2d 489, 491 (2d Cir. 1973) (Friendly, C.J.)); see also Douglas Oil Co. of Cal. v. Petrol Stops Nw., 441 U.S. 211, 218 (1979). Rule 6(e)(3) lists exceptions to the rule of secrecy but these are not invoked by the Government’s motion. In addition, the Second Circuit has recognized that there   ! The Court understands that the Government has made a parallel motion in United States v. Epstein, 19 Cr. 490 (S.D.N.Y.), at Dkt. 61. DOJ-OGR-00015047 

Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 789 Filed 07/22/25 Page2of4 are certain “special circumstances” in which release of grand jury records is appropriate, based upon a court’s supervisory authority over grand juries it empanels. See In re Craig, 131 F.3d at 102; see also id. at 104 (“The discretion of a trial court in deciding whether to make public the ordinarily secret proceedings of a grand jury investigation is one of the broadest and most sensitive exercises of car…

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