A federal judge on Tuesday denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s petition for her release from prison.
Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York rejected Maxwell’s habeas corpus petition, which she filed herself without legal representation. Maxwell was convicted of multiple felonies at her December 2021 trial for conspiracy to abuse underage girls with Jeffrey Epstein, whom Engelmayer referred to as “the notorious pedophile.” She then lost an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Supreme Court, which denied her petition for review last year.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas after being transferred from a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla.
Engelmayer’s ruling was not unexpected. Habeas corpus petitions rarely succeed, and they require proof that one or more of a person’s constitutional rights have been violated. In his ruling, Engelmayer depicts Maxwell’s convictions as “all arising from her participation…in the sexual abuse of young girls over the course of a decade” and “based on trial evidence of her guilt that was overwhelming.”
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