Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted child trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has requested that the United States Supreme Court hear her appeal.
Maxwell’s high-priced lawyers filed a 159-page petition to the high court on Thursday.
He legal team is asking the Supreme Court Justices to throw out her 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking.
63-year-old Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence in Tallahassee State Prison in Florida.
In December 2021, Maxwell was convicted on five counts of aiding convicted of her role in pedophile Epstein‘s child sex trafficking operation.
Maxwell, a former close friend of Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton, continues to vehemently deny all the charges against her.
She is asking the Supreme Court to throw out the conviction, a move that would see her walk free.
Maxwell argues she should never have been charged as Epstein’s “co-conspirator” because of a 2007 plea deal Epstein made in Florida.
Under the deal, Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two counts of child sex abuse and serve 13 months in jail in exchange for any of his “co-conspirators” avoiding prosecution.
A federal appeals judge rejected her appeal last year, however.
The appeals court determined that the Southern District of New York – where Maxwell was tried – was not covered by the deal agreed upon in Florida.
Now, Maxwell’s lawyers are begging the Supreme Court to “decide once and for all” whether the non-prosecution deal made in Florida should have protected the disgraced socialiste from justice.
In their lengthy petition to the Supreme Court, Maxwell’s lawyers said:
“Despite the existence of a non-prosecution agreement promising in plain language that the United States would not prosecute any co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, the United States in fact prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell as a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein.”
The attorneys argue that legal jurisdictions have different rules when it comes to honoring a plea deal made in another state.
The petition was written by Maxwell’s high-powered lawyer, David Markus.
“A defendant should be able to rely on a promise that the United States will not prosecute again, without being subject to a gotcha in some other jurisdiction that chooses to interpret that plain language promise in some other way,” the petition added.
Four women testified at Maxwell’s New York trial that they had been abused by Epstein, Maxwell, and their powerful clients.
One victim confirmed that she had been trafficked across state lines.
They claimed Maxwell aided and abetted Epstein in his global sex trafficking ring by recruiting and grooming underage girls.
Epstein killed himself in 2019 while behind bars in New York after being arrested on child sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell’s lawyers argue the plea deal he struck in Florida in 2007 “was entered into after extensive negotiation.
“The language was hotly contested and subject to much revision back and forth, including specifically on the relevant language of the co-conspirator clause.
“In one of the earlier drafts, the government proposed language that the co-conspirator protection would be limited to the Southern District of Florida.
“Yet the final draft eliminated (this)…..and referred only to the United States.”
The Supreme Court is expected to make a ruling on whether to hear the case before it breaks for the summer in June.
