The US Attorney’s Office is willing to drop the perjury charges against him slopes British Ghislaine Maxwell if her sentence for sex trafficking of minors is upheld, as explained in a letter sent to Judge Alison Nathan dated January 10.
With this, the prosecution seems to want to counteract attempts by the defense to have the trial repeated due to the statements of a member of the jury to the media in which he explained that he himself had been a victim of abuse as a child.
Prosecutors in the case said they are willing to drop those charges for a later trial at the time Maxwell is sentenced for the crimes for which she has already been found guilty, a stance in which they try to prevent victims from having to return. to testify and thus save them a new trauma.
The two perjury charges are linked to a 2016 statement Maxwell made to authorities in which prosecutors accuse her of lying.
The offer of the Prosecutor’s Office is contained in a letter linked to the discussions to set the date of the session to communicate the sentence to Maxwell, which the prosecution wishes to be held within a period of three to four months.
Meanwhile, the defense requests that no date be set until the judge decides on his request to hold a new trial.
They denounce a lack of objectivity
Maxwell’s attorneys they asked Last week a new process for the possible lack of objectivity of a member of the jury and for the possibility that he convinced other members to convict the one who was a close associate of the late magnate Jeffrey Epstein.
The British newspaper The Independent, among others, published statements by a member of the jury who described himself as a survivor of the sexual abuse he suffered as a child and indicated that the event influenced when calibrating the testimonies of the victims and assessing the verdict of Maxwell.
The man pointed out that after hearing the testimonies of four women who said they were Maxwell victims at the trial, they all showed a similar pattern of how they were deceived and abused and he assured that he believed all their testimonies.
The Briton, Epstein’s ex-lover and right-hand man, was found guilty by a twelve-person jury on December 28, 2021 of collaborating with him in several cases of sex trafficking with minors, a verdict that the defense legal team said it would appeal. shortly after the decision was made.