Federal judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘miscarriage of justice’ claim and bid for prison release
Judge Paul Engelmayer said Maxwell’s new Epstein files claims were largely irrelevant and likely incriminating, 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 Paul Engelmayer ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell's claims that her constitutional rights were violated had already been dismissed and were without merit. Maxwell argued that the charges against her were filed years after the crimes were committed, and that prosecutors had not disclosed the full body of evidence. The judge also addressed the "new evidence" cited by Epstein's accomplice, namely the files on Epstein's case released by the Justice…
Judge Engelmayer considered Ghislaine Maxwell's arguments to be 'almost all frivolous'.
The court rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's request to overturn her 20-year conviction. The accomplice and longtime partner of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein argued, among other things, that prosecutors failed to provide full evidence.
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