The lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell have filed for a retrial, after learning a juror may have had a conflict of interest in the case
Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell have now officially requested her conviction be overturned and the case go to a retrial.
The request comes after one of the jurors in her high-profile case revealed that he was a victim of sexual abuse when he was a minor.
60 year old Maxwell was convicted on five counts of sex trafficking and other crimes for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to have sexual encounters convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The British socialite is due to be sentenced in late June and faces up to 65 years in prison.
Maxwell’s lawyers stated earlier this month that there were “incontrovertible grounds” for the case to go to a retrial after a juror by the name of Scotty David, told multiple news outlets that he was abused as a child.
He admitted that he drew on this experience to influence others during jury deliberations.
