{"id":21353,"date":"2022-03-09T05:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=21353"},"modified":"2022-03-09T05:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T10:27:25","slug":"ghislaine-maxwell-juror-admits-mistake-not-revealing-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/03\/09\/ghislaine-maxwell-juror-admits-mistake-not-revealing-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghislaine Maxwell: Juror admits ‘mistake’ not revealing abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial has told a hearing it was an “inadvertent mistake”, not a lie, to fail to disclose on a questionnaire that he was an abuse victim himself.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maxwell was convicted of trafficking girls and her lawyers want a new trial, arguing the jury were not impartial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her case was thrown into disarray when this juror told the media he had told other jurors about his own abuse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The hearing in New York will establish whether or not Maxwell is retried.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Maxwell, the daughter of a late British media tycoon, was convicted in December of grooming teenage girls for abuse by the late Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She faces up to 65 years in prison but maintains her innocence. Epstein killed himself in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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