Posted on 04/30/2022 4:18:27 AM PDT by Libloather
Ghislaine Maxwell has lost a bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction, paving the way for her to be sentenced to decades in prison.
Lawyers for the British socialite had asked a judge to reject the verdict on multiple grounds, including insufficient evidence.
Maxwell was convicted in December of recruiting teenage girls for US financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse from 1994 to 2004.
In a written ruling, New York District Judge Alison Nathan said the jury's guilty verdicts were "readily supported" by extensive witness testimony and documentary evidence at the trial.
However the judge said she will only sentence 60-year-old Maxwell on three of the five counts she was convicted on.
The judge said three of the charges effectively covered the same offence so upheld only one of those three guilty verdicts.
It reduces Maxwell's possible maximum sentence by 10 years to 55 years behind bars, according to Reuters.
Judge Nathan wrote: "This legal conclusion in no way calls into question the factual findings made by the jury.
"Rather, it underscores that the jury unanimously found - three times over -that the defendant is guilty of conspiring with Epstein to entice, transport, and traffic underage girls for sexual abuse."
(Excerpt) Read more at moreradio.online ...
Still no Johns named, let alone prosecuted.
Reduced from 65 to 55 years? That’ll really help her. 😀😊
She sex trafficked to whom?
Andrew and maybe harry...
To bad she didn’t have our new SCOTUS as her judge she would have been released with a slap on the wrist!!!
There has not been one picture of her other than drawings.
Is she even really there?
Is she on suicide watch?
She’d rather live quietly behind bars than to be found cold and stiff in her cell one morning.
It’s a Federal case.Cameras aren’t allowed in Federal courtrooms.
Guilty though she clearly is, it is outrageous that she did not receive a new trial after a juror was revealed to have lied about not being abused himself and then used that experience to convince the other jurors to convict.
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2022/03/23/senate-confirms-judge-alison-nathan-to-2nd-circuit/?slreturn=20220330074308
The U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Alison Nathan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday. The Senate voted 49-47 to confirm Nathan, making her the second openly LGBTQ woman judge to sit on any federal appeals court. Before her appointment, Nathan served in the Southern District of New York, where she recently oversaw the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.
How long before the Presidential pardon takes place?
With her unable to avoid spending the rest of her life in jail (which, is you consider Epstein’s death, might not be that long), there is no incentive for her to name names.
Ole Slick Willy and Prince Andrew are exhaling big sighs of relief . . .
Or she might name names to get some pay-back, especially if she accepts that she is going to be "Epsteined."
It’s an odd situation: they had all the evidence to successfully prosecute exactly ONE person out of dozens/hundreds involved. One can only imagine the horrors promised should she choose to implicate and testify against the others.
Maxwell was convicted for sex trafficking to nobody.
“Guilty though she clearly is, it is outrageous that she did not receive a new trial after a juror was revealed to have lied about not being abused himself”
I agree. The integrity of the process is much more important than achieving popular results.
Oh, c’mon! She’ll be able to spend her 116th birthday free!
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