"On the first day of their new term, the justices declined to take up a case that would have drawn renewed attention to the sordid sexual-abuse saga after President Donald Trump's administration sought to tamp down criticism over its refusal to publicly release more investigative files from Epstein's case. Lawyers for Maxwell, a British socialite, argued that she never should have been tried or convicted for her role in luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by Epstein, a New York financier."
"Maxwell was prosecuted in Manhattan, and the federal appeals court there ruled that the prosecution was proper. A jury found her guilty of sex trafficking a teenage girl, among other charges. Maxwell's trial featured accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14 told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein's homes."
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, who remains imprisoned after a jury convicted her of sex trafficking and related charges. Maxwell received a 20-year federal sentence and was transferred from a low-security prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas following an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. Maxwell's lawyers argued that a 2007 non-prosecution agreement in Miami shielded potential co-conspirators from federal charges nationwide, but the Manhattan appeals court found the prosecution proper. The trial included testimony from four women alleging sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14 in the 1990s and early 2000s. The Trump administration urged the high court to decline the case.
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