Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s miscarriage of justice claims and bid for prison release
Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and be freed from prison was rejected by a federal judge Tuesday who said the claims by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and long-time associate that new evidence had emerged were “demonstrably meritless”. Maxwell filed a habeas petition last December seeking to set aside her conviction and free her from a 20-year prison…
A federal judge has dismissed Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal of her sex trafficking conviction and prison sentence, dismissing her claims of a "complete miscarriage of justice." In a written ruling, Judge Paul A Engelmayer stated that Maxwell's arguments were "frivolous" and that the evidence presented at her trial "conclusively established her guilt."
Maxwell filed the habeas petition in December, claiming new evidence had emerged that would exonerate her and overturn her 20-year prison sentence. The judge dismissed many of Maxwell's claims as speculative, distorted, or false, and noted that much of the evidence released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act was "largely irrelevant" to her case.
The judge also rejected Maxwell's argument that she was a scapegoat for the prosecution's failure to indict four co-conspirators.
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