NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence, saying “substantial new evidence” has emerged proving that constitutional violations spoiled her trial.
Maxwell maintained in a habeas petition she has promised to file since August that information that would have resulted in her exoneration at her 2021 trial was withheld and false testimony was presented to the jury.
She said the cumulative effect of the constitutional violations resulted in a “complete miscarriage of justice.”
“Since the conclusion of her trial, substantial new evidence has emerged from related civil actions, Government disclosures, investigative reports, and documents demonstrating constitutional violations that undermined the fairness of her proceeding,” the filing in Manhattan federal court said. “In the light of the full evidentiary record, no reasonable juror would have convicted her.”
The filing came just two days before records in her case were scheduled to be released publicly as a result of President Donald Trump’s signing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The law, signed after months of public and political pressure, requires the Justice Department to provide the public with Epstein-related records by Dec. 19.
The judge will throw it out. Trump will then call him or her an activist democrat judge (only in all-caps and with more misspellings) and then pardon her “in the interest of justice.”
This (and Epstein’s associates in general) are some of the extremely few instances where I’d feel completely justified in calling for extrajudicial justice when normal justice fails us.
Vigilantism is a symptom of a failed justice system. I’d give good odds on this.
Well, we definitely have a failed justice system, so it’s hard to disagree with your conclusion.
You do realize this government has programs that scour social media for comments just like this, right? They’re real 21st century authoritarians, and while not quite as bad as China yet, they’re trying hard to get there.
Yeaaah but some of us are commenting from the sidelines in countries with free speech
Yeah but do you have any oil perchance? Did you use olive oil with your eggs this morning? If so, THEY’RE COMING.
With the way Trump talks about Canada and the fact we do have oil, you might not be wrong :(
Y’all about to get freedom’d
You’re welcome to try, if you want to realize why Russia has had such an unfun time so far trying to invade a country whose people already speak your language and are mostly visually indistinguishable from you. The US does not have a good track record of successfully enduring in an occupation against guerilla warfare in the first place. If you thought Vietnam and Afghanistan were bad, or the 9/11 terror attacks were bad, there’s always a way it can get much, much worse and much more widespread. Nukes and strategic bombers and all the other wonderweapons the US has aren’t the “I win” button the US thinks they are. Those can make an army and a government surrender, but they can’t make a people surrender. And it’s the people they’ll have to worry about in the long run. Especially in Canada. Grab SKS, go inna woods. There’s a loooooot of woods up here.
I suspect if something like that happened you’d see a lot of “refugees” streaming north across the border.
Picking a fight with our northern cousins is absolutely a losing move that only a loser would consider.
We would welcome you and would invite you to grab scary black assault rifle, go inna woods too. There are plenty of woods here for everyone.
Brother I love hockey, pancakes, beer, AND the woods. I’m sorry my government is full of idiots.
So what are suggesting? To shut up, get in line, and lick the boot?
Yep, you got it 100%. That’s exactly what I said, glad you could read.
Cool, I hope they see this and are ready to take on a well armed, highly decorated veteran, that they trained specifically to deal with a hostile invasion force, with lots of booby traps that I can deploy at will.
You do you I guess
Don’t be a bitch. Say what you want to say until they physically stop you.
I mean, follow your heart then
Cool. I hope they can read that they fucking suck then.
You can say that all you want. Fuck Trump. Fuck this regime. Fuck ICE. etc. but when you start promoting specific violent acts against specific people, things get more complicated. Probably still fine tbh, but historically the government has actually gone after social media users who say specific violent threats.
Someone should stab Mitch McConnell with a wooden steak blessed with holy water. I bet he would burn to ash.