On Monday, SCOTUS declined to review the case of sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s convictions in an unsigned order with no dissents. In order to grant a review, at least four justices must agree to hear a case.
The decline signals that the 2021 federal conviction in the Southern District of New York stands, leaving Maxwell’s 20-year sentence in place.
Maxwell’s ask argued that a non-prosecution agreement entered into between Florida prosecutors and Jeffrey Epstein should have barred her prosecution in New York. That agreement, reached in 2007, shielded Epstein and, she claimed, extended to his alleged co-conspirators.
Now the Supreme Court as well as federal appeals courts have rejected that claim.