Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a US federal judge to set aside her sex trafficking conviction, saying "substantial new evidence" has emerged proving that constitutional violations spoiled her trial.

Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a US federal judge 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 was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021.

Ghislaine Maxwell has formally asked a federal court to throw out her sex trafficking conviction, just 48 hours before the latest Epstein files are expected to be published.

The habeas petition by Ghislaine Maxwell comes two day before a deadline for the Department of Justice to release files about Jeffrey Epstein.

It comes as the US justice department faces a 19 December deadline to release all files related the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

Ms. Maxwell, who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein in a sex-trafficking scheme, argued that she had been denied a fair trial.

Maxwell, a British socialite, was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021.

Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction

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…

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. A habeas petition (or writ of habeas corpus petition) is a legal request for a court to review the legality of someone’s detention, demanding that the custodian (like a prison official) bring the prisoner before a judge to justify the imprisonment, serving as a fundamental safeguard against unlawful confinement and arbitrary detention by ensuring due process.

Ghislaine Maxwell has filed a new post-conviction petition asking a federal judge to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, arguing that constitutional violations tainted her trial.

Imprisoned former Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell is asking a federal judge to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, saying “substantial new evidence” has emerged to prove constitutional violations spoiled her trial.

Ghislaine Maxwell filed a federal habeas petition to overturn a sex trafficking conviction, citing juror misconduct and suppressed evidence in the Epstein case.

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 […]

The filing came just two days before records in her case were scheduled to be released publicly as a result of Trump signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act.