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Attorney's Office, in the Southern District of Florida, issued

a grand jury subpoena for the entirety of the Palm Beach Police

Department's evidence relating to the Epstein investigation.

So as we sit here today and indeed for the last ten years since

2006, the Palm Beach Police Department has not been the

custodian of any of this evidence.

And so that's the factual backdrop to then what

becomes continuing problems with the types of evidence that I

anticipate the plaintiffs are going to try to introduce in this

case. The first is these police reports themselves. And that is about 87 or 88 pages of documents, depending on which

iteration of these police reports someone is looking at. That

essentially runs through the course of the investigation. And

I'm sure things that your Honor's seen before, you know, police

officer does something, they put it down on a piece of paper,

somebody puts it into a system, and then that's where it goes.

But the problem here, fundamentally, with these police reports --—

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COURT: Let me back up just a moment. MR. PAGLIUCA: Yes, sir.

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COURT: How are these going to be entered into

vidence? They're not self authenticating.

MR. PAGLIUCA: They're not.

THE COURT: So how are they going to be presented?

MR. PAGLIUCA: Good question, your Honor.

SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300

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