Federal judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘miscarriage of justice’ claim and bid for prison release
The judge said Maxwell’s new evidence was largely irrelevant and that her claims were barred or unsupported by the record, leaving her 20-year sentence intact.
- On Tuesday, New York District Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's habeas petition, dismissing her attempt to overturn her 2021 sex trafficking conviction.
- Maxwell, a British socialite, was convicted in 2021 for recruiting and grooming young women for Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 before his own trial.
- Claiming a 'complete miscarriage of justice,' Maxwell argued that new evidence from the Justice Department proved her rights were violated at trial and sentencing.
- Engelmayer rejected the arguments, calling them 'lengthy and rambling' and noting her assertions were based on 'speculation, distortions, and/or outright falsehoods' instead of credible facts.
- The judge ruled that alleged 'new' evidence from the Justice Department's Epstein files is 'largely irrelevant' to her case, stating no fact 'fairly puts in dispute' the trial outcome.
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Judge: Ghislaine Maxwell's Bid for Freedom Is 'Meritless'
Ghislaine Maxwell just hit another legal dead end. A federal judge in New York on Tuesday refused to overturn her conviction and 20-year sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, reports Reuters . Maxwell made the case that her conviction was a miscarriage of justice, but US District Judge...
Ghislaine Maxwell's Bid To Overturn Her Conviction Rejected By US Judge
Maxwell, 64, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and is the only person convicted of a crime in connection with Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting his own trial.
The accomplice of the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, remains in custody. On Tuesday, a U.S. federal judge dismissed a request by the 64-year-old to lift her sentence to 20 years in prison.She had been convicted of trafficking in human beings for mediating minors to Epstein.New York federal judge Paul Engelmayer stated that Maxwell's claims were "unfounded and largely irrelevant." She had argued that during the trial a…
The 64-year-old is serving a 20-year sentence for her role in recruiting girls for Epstein.
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