Judge upholds Ghislaine Maxwell’s intercourse trafficking conviction
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A trial choose has concluded there was enough evidence to convict Ghislaine Maxwell of intercourse trafficking
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
29 April 2022, 22:26
• 3 min read
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this textNEW YORK -- A choose concluded Friday that there was enough proof to convict British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking ladies for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, but she also gave Maxwell a authorized victory by concluding that three conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she will only be sentenced for one.
U.S. District Choose Alison J. Nathan said in her written ruling that the jury’s responsible verdicts had been “readily supported” by in depth witness testimony and documentary proof at a one-month trial that concluded in December.
Lawyers for Maxwell had requested her to reject the verdict on multiple grounds, together with inadequate proof.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted of recruiting teenage ladies for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse from 1994 to 2004.
Nathan said that she'll solely sentence Maxwell in late June on three of the five counts she was convicted on after concluding that two conspiracy counts were duplicates of the third.
“This legal conclusion on no account calls into question the factual findings made by the jury. Fairly, it underscores that the jury unanimously found — 3 times over — that the Defendant is guilty of conspiring with Epstein to entice, transport, and visitors underage women for sexual abuse,” Nathan wrote.
The discount of counts from five to three was not expected to have much impact on the sentencing, when Maxwell could face a sentence starting from a number of years to many years in prison.
Lawyers for Maxwell didn't return messages requesting remark. Prosecutors declined comment.
Earlier this month, the decide refused to toss out Maxwell's conviction after a juror disclosed to other jurors during jury deliberations that he had been sexually abused as a toddler although he had not revealed that reality in response to questions on prior sex abuse posed in a written questionnaire.
The juror had stated he “skimmed means too fast” by the questionnaire and did not intentionally give the improper answer to a question about sex abuse.
In refusing to toss the verdict, Nathan stated the juror’s failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse through the jury choice process was highly unlucky, but not deliberate.
The choose also concluded the juror “harbored no bias towards the defendant and will function a fair and impartial juror.”
Maxwell, arrested in July 2020, has remained incarcerated. Epstein was 66 when he took his personal life in a federal jail cell in August 2019 as he awaited a sex trafficking trial.