One of Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers said he and other attorneys for the billionaire pedophile “did not see a despairing, despondent, suicidal person,” adding that they are “skeptical” he committed suicide in a maximum security prison.

Lawyer Reid Weingarten also told Judge Richard Berman in U.S. District Court in Manhattan during a hearing on Tuesday that the injuries suffered by Epstein are “far more consistent with assault” than suicide. An autopsy found that Epstein had broken bones in his neck after he died Aug. 10, injuries more common in strangulation than hanging.

Weingarten said when he and other defense attorneys talked with Epstein shortly before his death, “we did not see a despairing, despondent, suicidal person.”

“We want the court to help us find out what happened,” he said.

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The case has been ignored by the mainstream media, who have buried the story after the ruling of suicide came down. In the hearing, prosecutors were seeking to dismiss the child sex trafficking charges against Epstein because of his death.

Weingarten said the judge had a “pivotal role to find out what happened.”

“We’re skeptical of the certitude” of the finding of suicide by hanging by the New York City medical examiner, the lawyer said, according to CNBC.

There are “significant doubts” regarding “the conclusion of suicide,” Weingarten said. But Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor, told Berman that Epstein’s death was already the subject of “an ongoing and active grand jury investigation.” “It is not the purview, respectfully, of the court to conduct an investigation into uncharged matters,” Comey said.

On Wednesday, a new report came out in the New York Post detailing what investigators found when they raided Epstein’s house in 2005.