Ghislaine Maxwell requests new trial after juror interviews

Ghislaine Maxwell requests new trial after juror interviews

FILE - Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, gestures during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, on July 2, 2020, in New York. A late-June sentencing date was set Friday, Jan 14, 2022, for Maxwell following her conviction last month on charges including sex trafficking and conspiracy relating to the recruitment of teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell has formally requested a new trial, less than a month after her conviction on sex trafficking charges. In a Wednesday letter to U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan, Maxwell lawyer Bobbi Sternheim said the motion for a new trial had been filed under seal and requested that all submissions related to “Juror No. 50 remain under seal until the Court rules.” The motion for a new trial had been promised by Maxwell’s lawyers, who had raised concerns about media interviews following the verdict in which the juror said he had been sexually abused as a child. 

Photo: FILE – Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, gestures during a news conference to announce charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her alleged role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein, on July 2, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)