Ghislaine Maxwell advocates lighter jail sentence

Christopher Hutton

June 16, 08:35 AM June 16, 08:35 AM

Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team is requesting that the court docket grants her a lighter prison sentence.

Maxwell's lawyers submitted a sentencing memorandum on Wednesday, arguing the late Jeffrey Epstein was the "mastermind" of the situations bordering him and that Maxwell, 60, should really not be taken care of "as if she ended up a proxy for Epstein just mainly because Epstein is no extended in this article."

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"Ms. Maxwell cannot and should really not bear all the punishment for which Epstein need to have been held accountable," the lawyers wrote in the memorandum.

Maxwell's crew also argued that the allegedly severe therapy of Maxwell in prison, who has been in jail considering the fact that July 2020, should really also be accounted for in the sentencing. These circumstances ended up "much more onerous and punitive than any experienced by a common pretrial detainee," her workforce argued, which include intensive isolation, several bodily queries, and "meager, stale, frequently rancid foodstuff." They also note that Maxwell is the goal of a "credible" loss of life risk from a fellow inmate.

The previous Epstein confidant was identified responsible on 5 of six counts associated to the trafficking of young women in December 2021. Maxwell's demo has been seen as a proxy for Epstein just after the man was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell in August 2019. Maxwell attempted to seek out a new trial due to allegations of a jury member not disclosing that he was a sufferer of little one sexual intercourse abuse, but a decide turned down the ask for on April 1.

Maxwell is scheduled to be sentenced in late June.