Salacious trial involving Clinton buddy Jeffrey Epstein delayed by appeals court

"WEST PALM BEACH —
A long-anticipated trial, pitting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against an attorney who persuaded the Palm Beach billionaire to pay $5.5 million to settle lawsuits filed against him by three of his teenage victims, won’t begin Tuesday in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.

Plans for what is expected to be a salacious trial came to an abrupt halt when the 4th District Court of Appeal late Friday stayed it until appellate judges consider a claim by Epstein’s attorneys that the case, even after nine years, isn’t ready to be decided by a jury.

Scarola has promised the trial will be the first public airing of allegations that Epstein paid dozens of teenage girls for sex at his Palm Beach mansion. As part of a controversial nonprosecution agreement with federal prosecutors, Epstein in 2007 agreed to plead guilty to state charges of solicitation of minors for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. In exchange, federal prosecutors agreed to drop their investigation.

Epstein, who spends most of his time on a private island he owns in the U.S. Virgin Islands, served 13 months of an 18-month jail sentence. He must register as a sex offender for life."

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