The US Supreme Court docket has declined to listen to Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her conviction for serving to the late financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage women, steering away from a case that continues to hound President Donald Trump and his administration.
The justices turned away an enchantment by Epstein’s former girlfriend who’s serving a 20-year jail sentence after being discovered responsible in 2021 on prices together with intercourse trafficking of a minor. By doing so, the justices let stand a decrease court docket’s resolution upholding Maxwell’s conviction. The justices didn’t clarify their reasoning in turning away her enchantment on Monday (Tuesday AEDT).
Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein.Credit score: AP
Maxwell’s attorneys contend that her conviction was invalid as a result of a non-prosecution and plea settlement that federal prosecutors made with Epstein in Florida in 2007 additionally shielded his associates and will have barred her felony prosecution in New York.
“We’re, in fact, deeply upset that the Supreme Court docket declined to listen to Ghislaine Maxwell’s case. However this struggle isn’t over. Severe authorized and factual points stay, and we are going to proceed to pursue each avenue obtainable to make sure that justice is completed,” David Oscar Markus, a lawyer for Maxwell, mentioned.
The Justice Division didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Maxwell was arrested in 2020 and convicted the next yr after being accused by federal prosecutors of recruiting and grooming women for sexual encounters with Epstein between 1994 and 2004.
Trump and his future spouse Melania with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seaside, Florida in 2000.Credit score: Getty Photos
Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking prices.
The Republican president and his administration have been attempting to tamp down a political furore that erupted after the Justice Division’s resolution to not launch information from its investigation of Epstein – regardless of earlier pledges to take action – infuriated a few of Trump’s most loyal followers.
