Gloria Allred outside of the Southern District Courthouse at 40 Foley Square on Aug. 27, 2019, awaiting a hearing in which alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein testified.
In a recent opinion piece, Professor Bruce Green and Rebecca Roiphe claim that Judge Richard Berman’s decision to allow victims to speak at a hearing regarding dismissing charges against Jeffrey Epstein “distorts” the criminal justice process for purposes of “drama.” See “The Judge in Epstein’s Case Should Not Turn the Dismissal into a Drama for the Victims,” Aug. 26, 2019.
The professors fail to cite even a single legal authority in their article. More important, assessed against the relevant governing legal principles, the judge’s decision properly reflects the new architecture of our federal criminal justice system, in which crime victims’ voices must be heard throughout the process.
