British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell asked the U.S. Supreme Court on April 11 to set aside her sex-trafficking conviction.
In 2019, Epstein was indicted on multiple charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy. He died by suicide in August 2019, according to official reports.
“Despite the existence of a non-prosecution agreement promising in plain language that the United States would not prosecute any co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, the United States in fact prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell as a conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein,” the petition said.
The only reason Maxwell’s motion to dismiss was denied was because it was made in the Second Circuit, which interprets “the enforceability of a promise made by the ‘United States’” differently than other regional circuit courts, according to the petition.
The petition said the motion would have been granted “if she had been charged in at least four other circuits (plus the Eleventh, where Epstein’s agreement was entered into).”
The Supreme Court should address “this inconsistency in the law by which the same promise by the United States means different things in different places,” the petition said.