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."
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Not even when she was arrested or her mugshot?
If she is smart she will have others in her corner start releasing the names of the johns. Her sentence then will be timed served.
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