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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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.”
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."
Epstein case: Ghislaine Maxwell seeks to overturn 20-year sentence, claiming new evidence
Former associate of Jeffrey Epstein files petition to vacate her sex-trafficking conviction, claiming substantial new evidence of constitutional violations on the eve of expected Epstein file releases - Anadolu Ajansı
Ghislaine Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in the Epstein case, asks for the annulment of her verdict by denouncing manoeuvres that, according to her, biased the trial, against a background of increased pressure on the American justice system to publish documents related to the case by Friday. ...
Key collaborator of the American financier, she was convicted of recruiting and facilitating sexual abuse of minors, transforming a series of crimes into a structured system
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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