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Maxwell’s Sex Trafficking Charges Should be Tossed Over Similarity to Bill Cosby Case, Claim Lawyers
Saturday , 3 July 2021 (YJC) _Earlier, one of Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers, David Markus, argued that the release of disgraced US comedian Bill Cosby gave him hope that a jury would finally reject the "flimsy and stale” sex trafficking charges against the British socialite.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team is arguing that the overturning of the 2018 sexual assault conviction against American former comedian Bill Cosby justifies dropping sex trafficking and other charges against their client.
Bill Cosby, 83, walked free on Wednesday after Pennsylvania's Supreme Court overturned his sexual assault conviction based on an earlier non-prosecution agreement dating to 2005.
Maxwell’s charges stem from her ties to the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The British socialite is accused of grooming young girls and women for Epstein, who was charged with running a sex trafficking network of minors in 2019. The woman, 59, who has since been branded the disgraced tycoon’s pimp, has denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty.
Maxwell's lawyers sent a letter to US District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan on Friday, outlining the similarity of her case and Cosby’s, as she had been immunised under Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement.
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