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No new trial for Ghislaine Maxwell despite juror’s false statement

No new trial for Ghislaine Maxwell despite juror’s false statement

LUC COHEN GHISLAINE Maxwell lost her bid to overturn her U.S. sex trafficking conviction, even after a juror acknowledged having falsely stated before the trial that he had not been sexually abused. U.S. Circuit Judge Alison Nathan said the juror, a man known in court papers as Juror 50, testified truthfully at a hearing last month after Maxwell's lawyers said his false answers on a pretrial questionnaire justified granting a new trial. "His failure to disclose his prior sexual abuse during the jury selection process was highly unfortunate, but not deliberate," Nathan wrote. "The court further concludes that Juror 50…
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