(New York) Ghislaine Maxwell, ex-partner and accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, initiated new proceedings in a Manhattan court on Wednesday to have her conviction overturned and obtain her release from prison, according to court documents.
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Mme Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sexual exploitation, contends she “did not receive a fair trial from independent” and “open-minded” jurors.
“If the jury had been aware of the new evidence of collusion between the plaintiff’s lawyers and the government aimed at concealing elements and faults of the prosecution, it would not have convicted me,” she wrote in the motion that she filed herself, without going through a lawyer.
Procedures of this type are often the last resort to overturn a conviction and are regularly rejected by judges.
In October, the United States Supreme Court already rejected – without giving reasons – the 63-year-old Briton’s appeal against her conviction for sexual exploitation in 2022.
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, hanged in his cell in New York in August 2019, before his trial for sex crimes, fueled conspiracy theories that he was murdered to cover up a scandal involving high-profile figures.
A law, adopted by the US Congress and promulgated by President Donald Trump after months of delaying tactics, gives the Department of Justice until Friday to publish all of the unclassified documents in its possession on the New York financier, his accomplice and all people involved in the legal proceedings concerning them.
