"Ghislaine Maxwell's Lawyer Argues Florida Plea Deal Shields Her from Prosecution"

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer argued before a federal appeals court to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, citing Jeffrey Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution deal in Florida as protection against her prosecution in New York. The three-judge panel challenged the argument, with one judge noting that the deal did not specifically protect Maxwell. Maxwell, convicted in December 2021, is serving her sentence in a Florida federal prison, while lawyers for the government and a trial witness argued that her conviction should be upheld.