"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. As is their custom, the justices did not explain why they turned away the appeal."
"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. She is serving a 20-year prison term, though she was moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after she was interviewed in July by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche."
"Maxwell's lawyers contended that a non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 by federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein's lawyers also protected his "potential co-conspirators" from federal charges anywhere in the country. 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."
The Supreme Court declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal, leaving her conviction and sentence in place. Maxwell is serving a 20-year federal prison term after a jury convicted her on sex trafficking and related charges. Prosecutors in Manhattan successfully defended the prosecution on appeal. Maxwell's lawyers argued that a 2007 non-prosecution agreement for Epstein shielded his potential co-conspirators from federal charges. The Trump administration urged the high court not to intervene. The trial included testimony from four women who described being sexually abused as teenagers in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein's homes. The justices offered no explanation.
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