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Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's 'frivolous' attempt to overturn conviction
The scathing ruling rejected Maxwell's attempt to vacate her 20-year sentence.
A federal judge in New York on Tuesday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's challenge to her conviction, finding her claims "meritless" or "frivolous."
Maxwell was trying to vacate her conviction and 20-year prison sentence.
Maxwell was convicted of five felony counts, all arising from her participation with Jeffrey Epstein, in the sexual abuse of young girls over the course of a decade. A federal appeals court upheld her conviction and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up her petition.
In court filings, Maxwell argued documents released in the Epstein files supported her claims of constitutional violations, but U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said her claims were "all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous."
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Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected Maxwell’s petition to throw out her conviction Tuesday, ruling her legal arguments about why her conviction was unjust are “meritless” and largely “frivolous.”
Maxwell’s petition to the court, filed in December, was one of the final options she had to challenge her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking crimes, after a federal appeals court and the Supreme Court previously rejected her case.
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Federal judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's 'miscarriage of justice' claims and bid for prison release
Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and be freed from prison was rejected by a federal judge Tuesday who said the claims by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate that new evidence had emerged were “demonstrably meritless.”
Maxwell filed a habeas petition last December seeking to set aside her conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence, claiming exonerating information was withheld and false testimony presented at her trial, resulting in a “complete miscarriage of justice.”
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