"Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence, saying "substantial new evidence" has emerged proving that constitutional violations spoiled her trial."
"Maxwell maintained in a habeas petition she has promised to file since August that information that would have resulted in her exoneration at her 2021 trial was withheld and false testimony was presented to the jury. She said the cumulative effect of the constitutional violations resulted in a "complete miscarriage of justice.""
""Since the conclusion of her trial, substantial new evidence has emerged from related civil actions, Government disclosures, investigative reports, and documents demonstrating constitutional violations that undermined the fairness of her proceeding," the filing in Manhattan federal court said. "In the light of the full evidentiary record, no reasonable juror would have convicted her.""
Ghislaine Maxwell filed a habeas petition seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence on grounds of constitutional violations. The petition alleges that evidence that would have led to her exoneration was withheld and that false testimony was presented to the jury. It cites substantial new evidence from related civil actions, government disclosures, investigative reports, and documents that purportedly undermined the fairness of her proceeding and produced a complete miscarriage of justice. The filing was submitted two days before Epstein-related records were to be publicly released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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