US EditionEpstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to set aside her conviction
Maxwell claims constitutional violations and new evidence justify overturning her 20-year sentence; petition filed days before DOJ's Epstein file release deadline.
- On Wednesday, Ghislaine Maxwell filed a habeas petition in Manhattan federal court seeking to vacate her 2021 sex‑trafficking conviction and be freed from a 20-year sentence.
- Maxwell contends substantial new evidence from civil actions and government disclosures shows constitutional violations and false testimony, undermining her trial and convincing no reasonable juror would convict.
- The legal context shows the Supreme Court earlier this year declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal and she was soon moved from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas after an interview with the Justice Department's second-in-command.
- Two days before the mandated release, the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires the Department of Justice to provide records by Dec. 19, and Judge Paul A. Engelmayer approved releasing 18 categories of investigative materials last week.
- With competing legal claims, David Markus, Maxwell's attorney, warned unsealing would create undue prejudice and foreclose a fair retrial, while U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said he would follow the law and judges' orders.
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"Invalid, unsafe and infirm": Ghislaine Maxwell files petition to vacate conviction
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell filed a petition in federal court on Wednesday, seeking to overturn her conviction and vacate her 20-year prison sentence. Maxwell was convicted on federal charges tied to her role in recruiting and grooming underage girls for the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. In the petition, Maxwell argued that newly uncovered evidence undermine the fairness of her trial. She also alleged constitutional violati…
Ghislaine Maxwell finally files petition she's been promising for months, but what she's claiming and when she filed it is raising eyebrows
Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a federal judge to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and release her from her 20-year prison sentence. She filed a habeas petition on Wednesday, claiming that “substantial new evidence” shows constitutional violations ruined her 2021 trial. According to AP News, Maxwell argues that important information proving her innocence was kept from the jury. She also claims witnesses gave false testimony during the trial.…
Ghislaine Maxwell Claims 'New Evidence' Overturns Conviction
Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal court to vacate her conviction and 20-year prison sentence due to “newly available evidence.” In a petition filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Maxwell argued that “substantial new evidence has emerged from related civil actions, Government disclosures, investigative reports, and documents demonstrating constitutional violations that undermined the …
Ghislaine Maxwell, the best friend and former partner of Jeffrey Epstein, who is serving 20 years in prison as an accomplice to the sex trafficking network of the millionaire pederast, asked the New York federal judge in charge of his case on Wednesday for the “annulment, revocation or correction of his conviction and sentence”, handed down in 2021. And he did so by virtue of what he considers “substantial new evidence.”
Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell Asks Court to Overturn Her Convictions
Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal court on Dec. 17 to set aside her sex trafficking convictions and 20-year prison sentence, citing “newly discovered evidence.” Maxwell was an associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died in custody in 2019 while under indictment for sex trafficking. She was convicted in December 2021 in New York state on five counts of sex trafficking, including conspiracy to traffic minors. In June 2…
Ghislaine Maxwell makes Hail Mary bid to overturn conviction days before Epstein files release
Jeffrey Epstein's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, has launched a Hail Mary attempt to have her sex trafficking conviction tossed -- potentially complicating the release of the "Epstein files."
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