NEW YORK --
The U.S. decide who oversaw Ghislaine Maxwell's intercourse trafficking trial on Friday stated a attainable "bombshell revelation" from one juror was no motive to delay her choice to not overturn the British socialite's conviction and grant a brand new trial.
Circuit Choose Alison Nathan issued her choice 5 hours after certainly one of Maxwell's legal professionals highlighted an interview the juror gave for "Ghislaine: Companion in Crime," a yet-to-be-aired Paramount+ documentary analyzing Maxwell and her relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
"The defendant gives no foundation to conclude that the interview would have an effect on the courtroom's evaluation or conclusion," Nathan wrote.
Attorneys for Maxwell didn't instantly reply to requests for remark.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted on Dec. 29 on intercourse trafficking and 4 different counts for serving to Epstein sexually abuse underage ladies.
The decision turned clouded when the juror, a person often known as Juror 50, instructed media that he had revealed throughout jury deliberations that he had been sexually abused as a baby, after failing to reveal it in a pretrial screening questionnaire.
After listening to from the juror in a March 8 listening to, Nathan concluded on Friday that the failure was "extremely unlucky, however not deliberate," and that the juror was not biased in opposition to Maxwell and will serve pretty and impartially.
The trailer for the Paramount+ sequence stated Juror 50's "bombshell revelation" got here in his "solely in-depth interview" regarding Maxwell's case. Juror 50's lawyer stated the interview passed off on Jan. 4.
Paramount didn't instantly reply to requests for remark. The community is a unit of Paramount World, which till lately was often known as ViacomCBS.
Nathan was elevated this week to the federal appeals courtroom in Manhattan however retained jurisdiction over Maxwell's case.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Enhancing by Mark Porter and Daniel Wallis)
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