"Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend and accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has asked a federal judge in the United States to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and quash her 20-year prison sentence. Maxwell made the long-shot legal bid in a Manhattan court on Wednesday, saying substantial new evidence had emerged proving that constitutional violations spoiled her trial in 2021 for recruiting underage girls for wealthy financier Epstein, who died in 2019."
"In the lengthy filing, Maxwell, 63, argues that newly discovered evidence proves that she did not receive a fair trial by independent jurors coming to Court with an open mind. If the jury had heard of the new evidence of the collusion between the plaintiff's lawyers and the Government to conceal evidence and the prosecutorial misconduct they would not have convicted, Maxwell wrote."
"Maxwell submitted the filing herself, not in the name of a lawyer. Proceedings of the type brought by Maxwell are routinely denied by judges and are often the last-ditch option available to offenders to have their convictions overturned, the AFP news agency reports. Maxwell's filing also comes just days before records in her legal case are scheduled to be released publicly as a result of US President Donald Trump's signing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act."
Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, filed a motion in Manhattan to set aside her 2021 sex‑trafficking conviction and quash her 20‑year prison sentence. Maxwell asserts newly discovered evidence shows constitutional violations during her trial for recruiting underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein. She alleges collusion between the plaintiff's lawyers and the government to conceal evidence and claims prosecutorial misconduct prevented jurors from coming to court with an open mind. Maxwell contends the cumulative violations resulted in a miscarriage of justice and submitted the filing pro se. The motion was filed days before Epstein‑related records must be released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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