We were all told it was suicide well before the M.E's findings and most beside the nutty accepted that was likely the case.
We need to get better understanding as to whether this suicide was aided either thru gross negligence or purposeful negligence?
Those were the 2 main questions prior and they are still the 2 main questions today.
Gross negligence is the confluence of simple mistakes or poor decisions.
Purposeful negligence can be creating situations where inmates or others can get to him to enact what is known as Prison Justice or knowing he may be suicidal and just leaving him to his devices as you don't care and feel everyone would be better off if he did it.
But these major questions that existed prior to the M.E report are still the ones that need answering now:
- why was he taken off suicide watch? Who made that call? Did it follow protocol?
- Protocol calls for an inmate coming off suicide watch to have a low risk cell mate for a period time post the attempt. The claim is he had one assigned but that person had a last minute transfer order and they decided to go thru with the transfer leaving Epstein alone. Who made that call? Prior protocol is reported to be that any such transfers would be delayed until the new cell mate was put in place. Someone over-rode that. How common is that departure? How often would that happen?
- Protocol was that guards should patrol and put eyes on him at a minimum, every 30 minutes (?). On that evening the rounds were not happening. How often would that departure happen?
- he revised his Will two days before his suicide. It is protocol that the Prisons, if aware of that, consider that a key indicator that a person may attempt suicide soon. Were they aware? Did they follow protocol?
- there is CCTV all thru the prison and yet nothing has been reported about what was captured. Why? Were they all operable? Was there any divergence from what is the norm there?
So as you can see pretty much every issue before the M.E report still exists and remains unanswered even this far into what should be a open investigation.
The only info we really have got is that they had some over worked guards who may have been derelict in their duties. Not shocking. But pinning this all on the low man in the totem pole is too conventiant and does not address all the other major issues that need answering.
No one should deny that the confluence of gross negligence is the leading theory. It is. But every time you require multiple things to ALL go wrong for that to happen then the more evidence is required to substantiate that. One mistake is easy to swallow. Two mistakes, also easy. Four or more required coincidental mistakes, rightly raise questions that require answers.