Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years for sex trafficking, says 2007 plea deal negotiated by Epstein should have protected her

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, has requested that the US supreme court overturn her conviction, saying she was unjustly prosecuted.

In 2022, Maxwell was sentenced in Manhattan to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and other related crimes. Her legal team, however, submitted a request to the supreme court on Monday, seeking to overturn the lower court’s decision, arguing that a prior plea deal that Epstein took protected Maxwell from prosecution.

Maxwell’s submission to the supreme court comes days after she met justice department officials, as discussions began to see whether she would turn into a US government cooperator. Observers have suggested Maxwell may be able to expose new information about Epstein’s sex trafficking and the wealthy individuals who may have also been involved. It is not clear if Maxwell will become a US government cooperator and what she may receive in return.

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[–] 108 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Because you can just do that now, apparently

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Gee whiz, I wonder what will happen here...

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    My money is 90% on "banana republic" level horseshit shenanigans.

    Something something none of my business kermit drinking tea meme 😁

    Edit:

    Terms I previously did not understand in detail for $1200, Alex. Even more applicable than I realized to where we are clearly being herded by Trump and Republicans and the oligarchy currently.

    A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.[1] The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor.[2] Such exploitation is enabled by collusion between the state and favored economic monopolies, in which the profit, derived from the private exploitation of public lands, is private property. At the same time, the debts incurred thereby are the financial responsibility of the public treasury.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's not even "I didn't do it", it's literally "I think I should have gotten away with it".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I've seen this guy lie his dick off for ten years, but not as childishly as he has for the past two weeks, as if his mother caught him stealing cookies. He's in complete panic mode. He can barely hit a golf ball properly, let alone rape a child, anymore.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Sounds like she has no remorse at all.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How would releasing her do anything but blow up In trumps face?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Seems like the play will be: She releases a list of names that include lots of people Trump doesn't like and omits anyone he likes, DoJ says "wow, she just helped us crack this thing wide open, super helpful!", leniency is granted, and the country moves on from the whole thing satisfied with the knowledge that Clinton and some other democrats were the only pedophiles after all!

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Apparently Epstein entered into a plea deal that may or may not have extended to co conspirators, named or otherwise. Very odd situation. Maxwell was not part of the plea deal but is arguing that she was a coconspirator and therefore the deal applies to her.

    Supreme Court needs to rule that plea deals can only affect people that physically entered into them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure the plea deal wouldn't have covered future crimes, either. Not like of you plea out of a speeding ticket you just get to speed for the rest of your life without legal consequences.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The basis of the argument is because she is covered under the plea deal her arrest was unconstitutional. Pretty batshit crazy if you ask me.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Trump and Epstein raped those kids and she ran the business for them

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The Supreme Court will now do it, because Trump would have told them too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    What a P.O.S.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Trump's former Sec of labor should never have been authorized to make such a garbage deal for heinous a crime.

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Child molesters seem to ask for a lot of special treatment from the legal system.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Its crazy that they dont get more severe penalties. These are industrial scale children rapists and child pimps. How are they not getting put into general population at a more violent prison? Maxwell is at a low security prison. That shows how broken our justice system is.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Totally thought this headline was an onion...

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