Ghislaine Maxwell retrial arguments must be public, prosecutors tell judge

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Guardian

Materials must be ‘publicly docketed’, judge told, after Maxwell’s lawyers filed detailed arguments for a new trial under seal

Victoria Bekiempis
Sat 5 Feb 2022 12.15 EST

Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal arguments involving the juror who might not have disclosed childhood sexual abuse during jury selection should be public, prosecutors said in a letter Friday.

“The government respectfully submits that the defendant has not justified her sealing request and, accordingly, the defense motion and its exhibits should be publicly docketed,” they told Manhattan federal court judge Alison Nathan.

A jury on 29 December found Maxwell guilty of sex trafficking and related counts for facilitating the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minor girls, some as young as 14.

Epstein, himself a convicted sex offender, was apprehended in July 2019 for sex trafficking teen girls; he killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell about one month later, while awaiting trial.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/05/ghislaine-maxwell-lawyers-retrial-prosecutors

[msfiddlestix]

1. Wait. Is this being Re-Tried? Or is it a motion for Re-trial?

[Lettuce Be]

2. Good luck finding a jury without someone having experienced abuse

Nationwide, 81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. Source. I personally have multiple times starting around age 13, by clergy, work bosses, a chiropractor who thought putting his hand down my shirt was a good idea, raped by ex-boyfriend (even had a peeping Tom once), so don't expect to get this conviction overturned by this big news.