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.

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    2 days ago

    No rational person wants to represent her?

    Either the evidence is so laughable no one wants to touch it or no one wants to be known as the person who colluded with trump to release his pedo buddy

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      1 day ago

      She already has attorneys, multiple ones, she’s filed this herself.

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        I understand that, I’m saying that perhaps it’s such a bad idea that no lawyer wants to be attached so she’s had to do it on her own

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      no one wants to be known as the person who colluded with trump to release his pedo buddy

      Lawyers have no shame.