A judge in the United States has upheld British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction despite a juror’s acknowledgement that he had falsely stated before the trial that he had not been sexually abused.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of helping the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. Maxwell requested a new trial in January after one of the 12 jurors in the case said in media interviews that he had been sexually abused as a child.
US Circuit Judge Alison Nathan on Friday decided that the juror, referred to as Juror 50 in court papers, testified truthfully at a hearing last month about Maxwell’s request for a new trial.
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