Ghislaine Maxwell is expected on Tuesday to ask a U.S. appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying a slew of errors marred the case as prosecutors made her a scapegoat because the financier was dead.
Maxwell's lawyers had tried to discredit her accusers and claimed that prosecutors turned the socialite's case into a legal reckoning that Epstein, a registered sex offender, never had.
Hundreds of women claimed to be victims of Epstein's abuse, and famous people, most notably Britain'sMany arguments in Maxwell's appeal are expected to mirror those she made unsuccessfully before, during and after the trial.with federal prosecutors in southern Florida, arising from alleged abuse at his Palm Beach mansion, also immunized her.
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