Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyers Say They Need Year to Review Documents

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers say they need at least a year to review a blizzard of documents prosecutors have gathered against the fund manager as they prepare to defend him against charges of sex trafficking in minors and conspiracy.

The U.S. asked a judge to schedule Epstein’s trial for next June, but defense attorney Martin Weinberg said his team wanted to wait until September 2020, because they hadn’t yet begun to receive documents from the government.

“We need time to receive a million pages of discovery and prepare to defend a four- to six-week trial,” Weinberg said during a brief hearing ...