Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge on Wednesday to vacate her conviction in a new filing citing “substantial new evidence” her attorneys say prove her constitutional rights were violated.
The filing says that the new information was withheld during the British socialite’s 2021 trial and false testimony was presented, resulting in a “complete miscarriage of justice,” the Associated Press reported.
Maxwell, a former girlfriend and longtime associate of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is serving a 20 year prison sentence, as CrimeOnline has reported. Earlier this year, she was moved to a cushy “prison camp” in Texas after she sat for interviews with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blance and told him that she never saw President Donald J. Trump do anything “inappropriate during his visits to Epstein’s private island.
The US Supreme Court declined in October to hear Maxwell’s appeal.
“Since the conclusion of her trial, substantial new evidence has emerged from related civil actions, Government disclosures, investigative reports, and documents demonstrating constitutional violations that undermined the fairness of her proceeding,” the new filing said. “In the light of the full evidentiary record, no reasonable juror would have convicted her.”
Records in her case and those of Epstein are scheduled to be released publicly on Friday, the result of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which rump signed in November after months of fighting any such release.
It’s not clear if the department will stop release of any of Maxwell’s records in light of her new filing. The law allows the department the hold some records back, and legal proceedings are among the reasons that could come into play. Her attorney, David Markus, wrote that she “does not take a position” on unsealing documents from her case, but doing so “would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial” if her new filing succeeds.
Epstein was arrested in new sex trafficking charges in 2019 and was found dead in his cell a month later. His death was ruled a suicide.
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