Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutors ask judge for inquiry into juror

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutors ask judge for inquiry into juror

Maxwell’s legal team says they believe a new trial is warranted following revelations about juror

Victoria Bekiempis in New York
Wed 5 Jan 2022 22.29 GMT

Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial on Wednesday asked the judge for an “inquiry” after a juror said in recent post-trial media interviews that he was a victim of sexual abuse.

Maxwell’s legal team said they believe a new trial is warranted following revelations about this juror.

Maxwell was found guilty on 29 December of five counts for facilitating the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls, some as young as 14.

“While the court instructed jurors that they were free to discuss their jury service with anyone of their choosing, some of the statements, as related in the media, merit attention by the court. In particular, the juror has described being a victim of sexual abuse,” prosecutors wrote.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-prosecutors-judge-inquiry-juror

[XanaDUer2]

1. Why can't jurors follow instructions?

Doing my jury duty, I was asked if I'd ever had cancer. Simple

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Yea let's let the child sex trafficking predator out of prison cause of what a jurist said

[lpbk2713]

3. That should have been covered in their voir dire.

It's their fault if they didn't bring it up.

[Eugene]

6. The jurors were required to fill out questionnaires, which included whether they were ever victims

of sexual abuse or harassment. The juror in question apparently left that out.

That juror then convinced others, from their own experience as a sexual abuse survivor, that incomplete memories could still be credible, per the AP.

Maxwell to seek new trial after reports of juror’s sex abuse (Associated Press)

In interviews published Tuesday and Wednesday by The Independent and the Daily Mail, one juror described a moment during the deliberations when he told fellow jurors in Maxwell’s trial that, like some of the victims of the late financier Epstein, he had been sexually abused as a child. And he said he convinced other jurors that a victim’s imperfect memory of sex abuse doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

“I know what happened when I was sexually abused. I remember the color of the carpet, the walls. Some of it can be replayed like a video,” he said he told the jury, according to The Independent. “But I can’t remember all the details, there are some things that run together.”

https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-sexual-abuse-alison-j-nathan-6a2a78ccdf82359c210f5ff77ed8c65f

[lpbk2713]

7. Something I wasn't aware of.

Thanks.

[Bev54]

8. What are the chances that the defense and prosecution did not even look at his

answer to that question because he is a man and like so many, they seem to think only women are abused.

[greenjar_01]

11. Oooof

That verdict's not going to stand under those conditions.

Good Lord!

[WA-03 Democrat]

4. They were agreed upon

by both sides. Each side asked questions. You lost and now fuck off.

[Dr. Strange]

10. But the (potential) jurors have to answer honestly.

[Raven123]

5. Good grief. Juror didn't answer the questionnaire accurately? May get a new trial

[greenjar_01]

12. I mean, it looks to be more than inaccuracy - it's deliberate deception

And then using the basis of that deception as the grounds of your arguments in deliberation? This is John Grisham type stuff. No bueno.

[Tomconroy]

9. I think this is a significant issue.