Following several months of post-conviction uncertainty, a federal judge ruled on Friday that Ghislaine Maxwell will not be granted a new trial.
Ghislaine Maxwell
will not be granted a new trial. At the end of 2021, a jury convicted the Jeffrey Epstein associate on five charges related to sex-trafficking and facilitating the financier’s sexual abuse. Soon afterwards, began telling news outlets about how his own experience of abuse figured into the deliberations. The man, identified as Juror 50 in court documents and as in those interviews, said that when fellow jurors were evaluating testimony about Epstein’s abuse and the ways in which Maxwell aided it, he weighed in with an account of how his memory of abuse shifted over time.
In the process of these interviews, David also revealed that he had given inaccurate answers in parts of his jury questionnaire. He told thein a video interview, for instance, that he had been allowed to serve on the jury because prospective jurors weren’t asked about any history of abuse, but appeared to learn in that same interview that they had in fact been asked.