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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
v. 
JEFFREY EPSTEIN, 
Defendant. 
Before: 
New York, N.Y. 
19 Cr. 490(RMB) 
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Conference 
July 31, 2019 
11:05 a.m. 
HON. RICHARD M. BERMAN, 
District Judge 
APPEARANCES 
GEOFFREY S. BERMAN 
United States Attorney for the 
Southern District of New York 
BY: 
Assistant United States Attorneys 
MARTIN G. WEINBERG 
Attorney for Defendant 
STEPTOE & JOHNSON, LLP 
Attorneys for Defendant 
BY: MICHAEL C. MILLER 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. 
EFTA00014546


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THE COURT: So, today's conference was scheduled at 
the end of the July 18 court conference hearing on that date. 
I thought that we would devote at least the -- well, probably 
most of today's proceeding to talking about the schedule in 
this case, and I asked the lawyers to get together and see if 
they could come up with a mutually agreeable schedule, which 
would include trial date, motion practice, discovery, etc. 
Does anybody want to let me know how you made out? 
: Yes, your Honor. 
We have conferred with defense counsel and talked 
about a proposed schedule for this case. So we are prepared to 
propose to the court today a schedule for discovery, for 
discovery-related motions, for pretrial motions, and we are 
also prepared to talk about setting a possible trial date. 
THE COURT: Okay. What have you got in mind? 
: So, with respect to discovery, we would 
propose a discovery deadline of October 31 to complete 
discovery, with one exception. There are materials from 
devices seized from the defendant's residence in New York, and 
the F.B.I. is beginning the process of reviewing that data. 
In discussing that with defense counsel, we have begun 
to discuss a process for a privilege-review protocol. It's 
possible that process ma…
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