the british Ghislaine Maxwell, who awaits sentencing on five crimes of sex trafficking committed together with the tycoon Jeffrey Epstein, formally requested a new trial from the judge of New York who handles your case.
(Read here: British Maxwell, guilty of sex trafficking according to the New York jury)
Lawyer Bobbi Steiner, who leads her defense team, formally filed a lawsuit for this new process in the last few hours with a sealed document in which she refers to “jury number 50” (identified as Scotty David) of those who participated in the process that took place between November and December.
(Also: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice and his sexual abuse)
The prosecutor’s office for the Southern District of Manhattan had already asked that jury be investigated for having “described being a victim of sexual abuse” in several statements to the media and for having acknowledged that he answered “hastily” the questionnaire about his admission as a jury.
All members of the jury had to answer a question about whether they or their relatives had been victims of sexual abuse; If so, that person is considered to have biases that invalidate him as a juror, but David lied and wrote no.
He and other jurors later recounted that his experience as an abuse victim had come up in jury deliberations, and that the issue had resonated with other jurors.
(You may be interested in: ‘Ghislaine Maxwell is more evil than Jeffrey Epstein’: victim of abuse)
It was expected that Maxwell’s defense would seize on this argument to request a new trial, something that must be answered by the judge handling the case, Alison Nathan, who last week, before hearing the request to repeat the trial, announced the date next June 28 to announce its verdict.
Maxwell, who has just turned 60, has been in preventive detention since her arrest in July 2020, after spending almost a year in hiding after her ex-lover and partner Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in a New York cell where he was waiting to be tried. for several cases of sexual abuse.
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