Ghislaine Maxwell Urges Supreme Court To Hear Her Criminal Appeal

WASHINGTON — Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer Monday renewed his petition that nan Supreme Court overturn her 2021 condemnation successful New York for recruiting and grooming aggregate teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually maltreatment for complete a decade.

In a caller filing, Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Markus, repeated arguments he made successful erstwhile filings that a non-prosecution statement Epstein made pinch national prosecutors successful Florida should use to Maxwell’s lawsuit successful New York and immoderate different portion of nan United States.

Maxwell's lawyer asked nan Supreme Court to return up her lawsuit successful April. Justice Department lawyers responded in a filing this period and urged nan tribunal not to see it.

Monday's filing consisted of Markus' consequence to nan government's arguments. The Supreme Court, which is connected its summertime recess, is improbable to enactment connected Maxwell’s lawsuit for months.

The filing includes nary caller accusation astir Maxwell’s 2 days of meetings past week pinch Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Federal prosecutors person based on that nan statement applies only to confederate Florida, wherever it was made. The national judge who oversaw Maxwell’s proceedings successful New York, Judge Alison Nathan, agreed.

Nathan wrote successful a 2021 ruling that a Justice Department reappraisal recovered that nary typical promises were made to Maxwell that she would not beryllium prosecuted federally extracurricular South Florida.

Markus based on that Maxwell did person those assurances.

“This lawsuit is astir what nan authorities promised, not what Epstein did,” he wrote. “Plea agreements are expected to beryllium strictly construed against nan government, yet present nan authorities isn’t moreover asking for nan use of nan doubt; it is asking for a blank cheque to rewrite its ain committedness aft nan fact.”

Nathan besides noted successful her 2021 ruling that nan Florida non-prosecution statement covered Epstein’s criminal activity from 2001 to 2007. Maxwell was prosecuted successful New York for her behaviour from 1994 to 1997, “some 4 years earlier nan play covered by nan Southern District of Florida investigation.”

Markus said successful a connection that he was appealing to some nan Supreme Court and President Donald Trump for thief pinch Maxwell's case. The Supreme Court could overturn Maxwell's 2021 condemnation successful New York and bid a caller national trial. Trump could commute Maxwell's condemnation aliases pardon her.

"President Trump built his bequest successful portion connected nan powerfulness of a deal—and surely he would work together that erstwhile nan United States gives its word, it must guidelines by it," Markus said.

"We are appealing not only to nan Supreme Court but to nan President himself to admit really profoundly cruel it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes," he added, "especially erstwhile nan authorities promised she would not beryllium prosecuted.”