The former socialite appealed her sentence to a U.S. court Tuesday night.
The family of convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has lashed out at prosecutors who charged her as she appeals herto a U.S. court. In a statement, they called her arrest “theatrical” and suggested it was intended to save then-U.S. Attorney General William Barr from “embarrassment.” “It was a calculated publicity stunt designed specifically to criminalise her in the eyes of her future jury and the world,” the statement said, describing Maxwell as a “victim” in a “stitch-up.
” In an appeal filed late Tuesday, Maxwell asked for her case to be thrown out or to be given a new trial due to what she alleges are errors in the Epstein sex abuse story that tainted her trial. Filing in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, attorney Arthur Aidala said that “the government prosecuted Ms. Maxwell as a proxy for Jeffrey Epstein” in order to quell “public outrage” over the case, according to reporting by Reuters. The 61-year-old was convicted in Dec.
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Ghislaine Maxwell to say she was held ‘under inhumane conditions’ in appeal“She was so disoriented and diminished that she was unable meaningfully to assist in her own defense, much less to testify,” her lawyers said Tuesday.
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Ghislaine Maxwell to ask appeals court to throw out sex trafficking convictionGhislaine Maxwell is expected on Tuesday to ask a U.S. appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying a slew of errors marred the case as prosecutors made her a scapegoat because the financier was dead. 'The government prosecuted Ms. Maxwell as a proxy for Jeffrey Epstein' to satisfy 'public outrage' over the case, and worked with his accusers 'to develop new allegations out of faded, distorted, and motivated memories,' Maxwell lawyer Arthur Aidala said in a statement obtained by Reuters. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in Manhattan declined to comment.
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Ghislaine Maxwell to ask appeals court to throw out sex trafficking convictionGhislaine Maxwell is expected on Tuesday to ask a U.S. appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying a slew of errors marred the case as prosecutors made her a scapegoat because the financier was dead.
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Ghislaine Maxwell Will Reportedly Use New $1 Million Divorce Settlement to Fund Her Appeal“By the time of trial, she was so disoriented and diminished that she was unable meaningfully to assist in her own defense,” her attorney is arguing.
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Ghislaine Maxwell appeals sex-trafficking conviction over ‘fatal’ errors“Ms. Maxwell was denied her right to be tried by a fair and impartial jury when a juror revealed that he gave made materially false statements in jury selection that concealed that he had exp…
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Ghislaine Maxwell's appeals arguments mirror earlier claimsGhislaine Maxwell says a federal appeals court should reverse her conviction on charges that she joined and enabled the sexual abuse that Jeffrey Epstein committed on scores of teenagers and young women
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