Court denies Ghislaine Maxwell bid to overturn sex-trafficking conviction

A judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's attempt to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction and sentence. The ruling keeps Maxwell's prison term in place.

Maxwell's appeal to quash sex-trafficking conviction dismissed by court

A federal judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's bid to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction and sentence, Google News MT — Crime (en) reports, citing the ruling by CBS News.

Maxwell, the British socialite convicted in 2021 of recruiting and grooming underage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, had sought to have both her conviction and her 20-year prison sentence set aside.

The judge denied the effort in full, leaving Maxwell's sentence intact. Maxwell's legal team had argued procedural and evidentiary grounds in their challenge, but the court found those arguments insufficient to warrant a reversal.

Maxwell is currently serving her sentence at a federal prison in the United States. Her conviction followed a trial in New York in which prosecutors presented testimony from several women who said they had been sexually abused as minors.

The ruling marks another failed legal avenue for Maxwell, who has pursued multiple challenges since her sentencing in June 2022.

Source: Google News MT — Crime (en)