Here's another article about the appeal.
Maxwell's appeal also argues that a rogue juror who didn't disclose his past experience with sexual abuse deprived her of a fair trial.
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Here are the details about one of the grounds for the appeal.
"Instead of bringing federal sex-trafficking charges, then-US Attorney Alexander Acosta allowed Epstein to serve a brief and lenient sentence in Palm Beach County jail in Florida on prostitution solicitation charges. The document also said that "the United States" would not bring criminal charges against four specific women as well as "potential co-conspirators."
Nathan previously ruled that
the agreement's language bound only the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, which Acosta led, and not the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which prosecuted Maxwell.
"Courts cannot infer intent to depart from this ordinary practice from an agreement's use of phrases like 'the government' or 'the United States.' Those are common shorthand," Nathan wrote. "A plea agreement need not painstakingly spell out 'the Office of the United States Attorney for Such- and-Such District' in every instance to make clear that it applies only in the district where signed."
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigated Acosta's conduct and admonished him for the agreement, dug up volumes of emails and other communication regarding the agreement. But nowhere in all of that negotiation history, Nathan said, could Maxwell's lawyers find any evidence that Epstein's co-conspirators would have unlimited protection across the country.
In Tuesday's appeal, Maxwell's lawyers argued that Nathan read the agreement too narrowly. Epstein wanted a broad agreement, they said.
Her lawyers pointed to Leslie Groff, one of the people explicitly named as a potential co-conspirator, who worked for Epstein out of his office in New York.
US Attorneys in Manhattan decided not to seek charges against Groff, Insider previously reported.
"Epstein's objective in negotiating the NPA was to obtain a global resolution that would, among other things, provide maximum protection for any alleged co-conspirators," Maxwell's lawyers wrote.
In any case, the judge should have held a hearing to figure out the non-prosecution agreement's true meaning before concluding it didn't apply to Maxwell, the lawyers argued."
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