Ghislaine Maxwell's Latest Bid for Freedom

0:00It's April 22nd, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Durham News Today, your AI-powered local news. Galaine Maxwell is making another push to throw out her sex trafficking conviction. The longtime partner of Jeffrey Epstein is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping him recruit and abuse underage girls as young as 14. She's filed a new motion herself with a federal judge in New York, asking to get released right away. Prosecutors got her request in a FedEx embalope, post-marked April 16th, 2026, on a USB drive. They say it overlaps with her earlier bids to dismiss the case, which court shot down last year, including the Supreme Court passing on her appeal. Maxwell has run out of direct appeals, so back in December, she filed a habeas petition claiming fresh evidence. In February, the judge led her amended after the Justice Department dropped more Epstein files. She's argued before that her trial was unfair, and that Epstein's old non-prossecution

1:00deal from his 2008 plea should cover her too. She's also said the grooming charges were too vague to be crimes. Meanwhile, in a recent interview with the top Justice official, Maxwell cleared former President Trump, saying she never saw him do anything sketchy. Around her. This keeps the Epstein saga dragging on, even after his suicide in the New York jail, back in 2019. We'll see if this latest move from Maxwell changes anything for the victims or her sentence.