US EditionEpstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to set aside her conviction
Maxwell claims new evidence reveals constitutional violations and prosecutorial misconduct that compromised her 2021 conviction and 20-year sentence, filed just before DOJ's Epstein records release.
- 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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Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a long prison sentence for her association with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, claims that information that would have led to her acquittal was withheld during her trial.
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Ghislaine Maxwell asks judge to set her free, citing ‘substantial new evidence’ of spoiled trial
Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence, saying “substantial new evidence” has emerged proving that constitutional violations spoiled her trial. Maxwell maintained in a habeas petition she has promised to file since August that information that would have resulted in her exoneration at he…
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