Decide upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s intercourse trafficking conviction
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A trial decide has concluded there was sufficient proof to convict Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
29 April 2022, 22:26
• 3 min read
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleNEW YORK -- A judge concluded Friday that there was enough evidence to convict British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of intercourse trafficking girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, however she additionally gave Maxwell a legal victory by concluding that three conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she can only be sentenced for one.
U.S. District Choose Alison J. Nathan stated in her written ruling that the jury’s guilty verdicts were “readily supported” by extensive witness testimony and documentary proof at a one-month trial that concluded in December.
Attorneys for Maxwell had asked her to reject the verdict on a number of grounds, together with insufficient evidence.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted of recruiting teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse from 1994 to 2004.
Nathan said that she'll only sentence Maxwell in late June on three of the five counts she was convicted on after concluding that two conspiracy counts have been duplicates of the third.
“This legal conclusion under no circumstances calls into question the factual findings made by the jury. Reasonably, it underscores that the jury unanimously discovered — three times over — that the Defendant is responsible of conspiring with Epstein to entice, transport, and site visitors underage girls for sexual abuse,” Nathan wrote.
The discount of counts from five to a few was not anticipated to have a lot effect on the sentencing, when Maxwell might face a sentence ranging from several years to a long time in prison.
Legal professionals for Maxwell didn't return messages requesting comment. Prosecutors declined remark.
Earlier this month, the choose refused to toss out Maxwell's conviction after a juror disclosed to other jurors throughout jury deliberations that he had been sexually abused as a baby despite the fact that he had not revealed that truth in response to questions on prior sex abuse posed in a written questionnaire.
The juror had mentioned he “skimmed manner too quick” by means of the questionnaire and didn't deliberately give the fallacious reply to a query about intercourse abuse.
In refusing to toss the verdict, Nathan stated the juror’s failure to reveal his prior sexual abuse in the course of the jury choice process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate.
The choose also concluded the juror “harbored no bias towards the defendant and could serve as a fair and neutral juror.”
Maxwell, arrested in July 2020, has remained incarcerated. Epstein was 66 when he took his own life in a federal jail cell in August 2019 as he awaited a intercourse trafficking trial.