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Ghislaine Maxwell asks US supreme court to overturn conviction (www.theguardian.com)
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, has requested that the US supreme court overturn her conviction, saying she was unjustly prosecuted.

In 2022, Maxwell was sentenced in Manhattan to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and other related crimes. Her legal team, however, submitted a request to the supreme court on Monday, seeking to overturn the lower court’s decision, arguing that a prior plea deal that Epstein took protected Maxwell from prosecution.

Maxwell’s submission to the supreme court comes days after she met justice department officials, as discussions began to see whether she would turn into a US government cooperator. Observers have suggested Maxwell may be able to expose new information about Epstein’s sex trafficking and the wealthy individuals who may have also been involved. It is not clear if Maxwell will become a US government cooperator and what she may receive in return.

Maxwell’s supreme court filing argues that Epstein’s 2007 plea deal with federal prosecutors in Florida should have barred her prosecution.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Child molesters seem to ask for a lot of special treatment from the legal system.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Its crazy that they dont get more severe penalties. These are industrial scale children rapists and child pimps. How are they not getting put into general population at a more violent prison? Maxwell is at a low security prison. That shows how broken our justice system is.