Ghislaine Maxwell

New York judge concludes juror's failure to disclose prior abuse did not taint British socialite's guilty verdict.

The juror's statements to the media had clouded the sex-trafficking conviction of Ms. Maxwell, a longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein.

Hours before Judge Nathan’s ruling, Ms. Maxwell’s lawyers wrote to the judge, asking that she delay her decision in light of what they called new information — yet another media interview with Juror 50, which was to be released on a streaming service. He listened to the evidence and was fair and impartial. Ms. Maxwell’s conviction was the culmination of a convoluted, yearslong case that entangled celebrities and politicians and spawned conspiracy theories centered around Mr. Epstein, who died by suicide while in custody awaiting his own trial.

Maxwell, a British socialite, was convicted in December of helping the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse several teenage girls. US Judge Alison J.

In her opinion, Nathan said the juror’s failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse during the jury selection process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate. A US judge refused to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction today, despite a juror’s failure to disclose before the trial began that he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse. The juror had said he “skimmed way too fast” through the questionnaire and did not intentionally give the wrong answer to a question about sex abuse.

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Prosecutors contended that Maxwell could not show the juror, identified in court papers as Juror No. 50, was biased, after he said during jury selection he would be fair and impartial and decide the case based on the evidence. Asked in a pretrial screening questionnaire whether he had been a victim of sexual abuse, the juror checked "no". The British socialite requested a new trial in January after one of her 12 jurors said in media interviews he had been sexually abused as a child.

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"He listened to the evidence and was fair and impartial. "His failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse during the jury selection process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate," Nathan wrote. Her sentencing is scheduled for June 28. "Juror 50 does not consider himself a victim and does not let his past define him," Todd Spodek, the juror's lawyer, said in a statement. Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell sits as the guilty verdict in her sex abuse trial is read in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U. S., December 29, 2021. Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell sits as the guilty verdict in her sex abuse trial is read in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U. S., December 29, 2021.