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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, will urge a federal appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling she says jeopardizes her ability to defend against criminal charges she enabled Epstein's sexual abuse of girls.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will review a judge's order to unseal sworn testimony related to Epstein, including a April 2016 deposition from Maxwell and a deposition by an Epstein accuser.
Maxwell, 58, has said negative publicity from the disclosure of "intimate, sensitive, and personal" information from her deposition would violate her right against self-incrimination, and imperil a fair trial because jurors might hold it against her.
The British socialite has pleaded not guilty to charges she helped Epstein recruit and groom underage girls as young as 14 years old to engage in illegal sexual acts in the mid-1990s, and not guilty to perjury for having denied involvement under oath.
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Baitball Blogger
(46,755 posts)Firestorm49
(4,036 posts)This was all her choice and she should be made to live with the consequences of her actions rather than have it swept under the judicial rug.
JDC
(10,130 posts)To abusive men and maybe even women. Over the course of years.
She should get nothing she wants. Nothing. She is a horrible human being.
All of my thoughts and energy goes to the victims. That's it.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)I object to the evidence of my guilt being submitted, as it damages my ability to claim that I'm innocent.'
Whatever, and fuck her. I hope the judge not only releases it, but orders it printed in the Washington Post. NAMES INCLUDED.