NEW YORK – The British Ghislaine Maxwell, former lover and partner of Jeffrey Epstein, will receive her sentence next 28 June after being found guilty of several sex trafficking crimes in a jury trial that took place in New York last December.
ordered the judge handling the case, Alison Nathan, in a document delivered to the court late Friday citing defense litigation over a retrial for a juror’s possible lack of objectivity.
Maxwell, aged 15, received the 29 December a guilty verdict on five federal crimes related to his collaboration with Epstein to commit sexual trafficking of minors, for which he faces a maximum of 65 years in prison.
However, his lawyers requested last week a new trial after a member of the jury told the media that he had been a victim of abuse as a child, which could have contaminated the objectivity in the discussions, they allege.
In communications about the date of the sentence, the Prosecutor’s Office was willing to drop some perjury charges that Maxwell has pending if his conviction for child sex trafficking is upheld, in an apparent response to the defense’s attempt that the trial be repeated.
The Prosecutor’s Office requested that the sentence be issued within a period of three to four months, but the defense requested to wait for the judge to decide about your request to hold a new procedure so, so placing the hearing at the end of June it seems to lean towards the second call.
Judge Nathan, in her sentencing order, says “accept the proposal that the date of proceedings related to the separate charges of perjury be deferred until post-verdict motions are resolved.”
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