Ghislaine Maxwell

2022 - 3 - 8

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Ghislaine Maxwell Juror Says He 'Didn't Lie' to Get on Jury (The New York Times)

The man's statements to the news media after Ms. Maxwell's conviction have clouded the guilty verdict in the case.

Asked if he had hoped to be selected, he replied: “I did not hope to be on this jury. At the start of the hearing, Judge Nathan asked Juror 50 if he had answered the question about sexual abuse accurately, and he said no. Judge Nathan asked whether he had been concerned with following her instructions during jury selection. But I did not set out in order to get on this jury.” Asked if he harbored any bias toward Ms. Maxwell, Juror 50 said no. He told his mother about it when he was in high school, and she called the police, he said, but no charges were brought. “It doesn’t define me,” he said. Ms. Maxwell, in navy prison scrubs, sat with her lawyers across the courtroom. She gave Ms. Maxwell’s lawyers and the government until March 15 to file written arguments based on the hearing. Juror 50, who identified himself during jury selection as a Manhattan resident in his mid-30s, wore a blue button-down shirt under a dark sweater. But a judge can examine statements jurors made during the selection phase. “I didn’t lie in order to get on this jury.”

“One of the Biggest Mistakes I Have Ever Made in My Life”: A ... (Vanity Fair)

Judge Alison Nathan questions juror number 50 about his answers on the juror questionnaire as Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell listens in a courtroom ...

David said that he was inspired by the courage of the victims who testified and that, considering he didn’t use his full name in the interviews and only has a small social media following, he didn’t think friends and family would see the coverage or link it to him. “To be clear,” Nathan wrote in a court filing last month, “the potential impropriety is not that someone with a history of sexual abuse may have served on the jury. David told Nathan that when he was nine and 10 years old, his stepbrother and one of his stepbrother’s friends sexually abused him. When he was filling out the form, he saw other people finishing up and wondered why he was taking so long. He was distracted by noise and the crowd of potential jurors, saying he sat twiddling his thumbs for hours as he pondered a recent breakup. The man, identified as Juror 50 in court documents and as Scotty David (his first and middle names) in interviews he has given, told several reporters in January that his own experience of being sexually abused helped shape the deliberations.

A Ghislaine Maxwell juror says he regrets not disclosing his sex ... (NPR)

NEW YORK — A juror told a judge Tuesday that failing to disclose his child abuse history during jury selection at the trial of British socialite Ghislaine ...

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Maxwell juror says he was distracted during jury selection but 'I did ... (The Guardian)

Scotty David admits he rushed screening questionnaire and says he gave answer to sexual abuse question that was not accurate.

David said he told his mother when he was in high school, and that she went to police but no charges resulted. It revealed that he marked the no box in response to the abuse question. At several points during Nathan’s questioning, David said his experience did not affect his ability to be a fair juror in Maxwell’s case. “I wasn’t distracted.” I didn’t have a phone, I didn’t have a book. “We had to be at the courthouse super early,” he said. “I didn’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about it.” “I flew through this questionnaire,” David said. Following David’s comments in the media, prosecutors asked Nathan for an inquiry. When he said yes, the judge asked him to explain why. Epstein, a convicted sex offender who once counted elite figures such as Prince Andrew among his associates, was arrested in July 2019 for sex trafficking. I wasn’t distracted.

Ghislaine Maxwell: Juror who spoke out about sexual abuse thrust ... (Independent.ie)

Ghislaine Maxwell captured global attention as she was tried and convicted of recruiting and grooming young girls for her “partner in crime” Jeffrey Epstein ...

Her high-profile legal team is likely to be missing a few key figures. Prosecutors have said they will offer immunity from prosecution, which could compel him to answer questions fully. “To be clear, the potential impropriety is not that someone with a history of sexual abuse may have served on the jury,” Judge Nathan said. A spokesman for the Southern District of New York told The Independent Maxwell would be present in court for the hearing. He said if the prosecution had felt it was important for a jury to understand why a victim of sexual abuse may wait a long time before they report it, they would call an expert in that area. Maxwell’s lawyers have argued that the failure to disclose his history, which he later discussed in media interviews, was grounds for the convictions to be dismissed and a retrial to be ordered.

Juror in Ghislaine Maxwell trial told judge he regrets not disclosing ... (thejournal.ie)

He said he failed to disclose that he was sexually abused as a child because he “skimmed way too fast” through the questionnaire.

The judge granted the juror immunity before he answered questions for over half an hour. He described persuading some fellow jurors during deliberations that a victim’s imperfect memory of abuse does not mean it did not happen. A written questionnaire he filled out had asked about that directly.