In her appeal, Maxwell’s lawyers said prosecutors scapegoated her because Epstein was dead and “public outrage” demanded that prosecutors pin blame somewhere.
The lawyers also said the government waited too long to bring charges, and that Maxwell was immune under a 2007 non-prosecution agreement between Epstein and federal prosecutors in Florida.
In addition, Maxwell’s lawyers said the trial was tainted because one juror failed to disclose he had been sexually abused as a child.
Prosecutors believe the appeal is meritless.
I caught a statistic in a podcast recently that supposed that a surprising percentage of people have been sexually assaulted, but I can’t accurately represent it because my memory is shit. Given how many cases go unreported, it seemed plausible. The world is terrible and so are people.