British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to toss her sex trafficking conviction, arguing that a 2007 non-prosecution agreement with Jeffrey Epstein should have shielded her from federal charges.
Maxwell was convicted in New York in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
In a filing Monday, her attorneys said the federal government violated its own agreement not to prosecute Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators. They argue the deal applied nationwide, not just in Florida.
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