US supreme court declines to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of sex-trafficking conviction
by Edward Helmore from US news | The Guardian on (#70J1Q)
Jeffrey Epstein associate was sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and related crimes
The US supreme court has declined to hear an appeal from the Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell of her sex-trafficking conviction.
The decision brings an end to Maxwell's legal effort to have her 2021 conviction on sex-trafficking charges overturned - and leaves presidential clemency as her only option for early release from a 20-year prison sentence handed to her in 2022.
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