As with all things Epstein, this entire event will be blown up to suck the air out of Trumpstein-Gate. (It won’t work on me: I survived Nixon, Vietnam, and Watergate, also the Iraq war. I won’t get distracted: Epstein was still a pedo, and Trump is still a convicted rapist.
IF Hoagie Hurler snags someone from the DC Public Defenders Service (and since he just got fired he probably will have to) he may be a lucky guy. PDS has been around for decades, is said to be absolutely top notch, first rate,very serious,and seriously competent.
As a side note: I was around and paying attention when Nixon’s DOJ pulled similar tricks, and they were light years ahead of this lot in terms of legal smarts. As for their criminality, this lot makes them look like amateurs.
After dragging this thing out endlessly, DOJ will probably drop all charges, called nolle prosequi (often shortened to nol pros).
It’s Latin for “we shall no longer prosecute,” and it’s essentially a formal notice to the court that the prosecution is abandoning the case. By then, tens, possibly 100s of thousands of dollars from the defendant, his GoFundMe, or public defenders (paid for by the taxpayers) will have been blown.
Unfortunately, there’s no mechanism I know of for the dismissed defendant, his lawyers, of the taxpayers to get their money back. Which is the point, I guess.