Why the Supreme Court could take up Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal over Epstein agreement

[tulipsandroses]

I don't see how pardoning her would win him any favors.
Maxwell participated in the abuse. Those facts are out there in depositions already released. I don't know how they could excuse pardoning her when you can easily pull up all that information. Everyone should read those statements so they don't lose sight of the horrors Maxwell and Epstein wrought on those girls. If she is pardoned, every media outlet should publish those statements in raw detail. So people understand that republicans let a vile sex offender loose.

For that reason, I think if a deal is struck between her and the trump admin, it will be to make sure she wins her appeal. Then they can say she was freed on a technicality.

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If the justices step in, it wouldn’t necessarily have anything to do with the validity of the trafficking charges against the Epstein associate.

Even if the justices agree to take Maxwell’s case, however, that wouldn’t necessarily mean they’re interested in the validity of the underlying charges against her, which involve conspiring with Epstein to traffic minors. Rather, as savvy lawyers do when petitioning the high court, her counsel presents the issue as a general legal matter that needs a nationwide resolution, something the justices are in the business of providing.

In Maxwell’s case, that issue is whether a promise on behalf of the “United States” or the “Government” that’s made by a U.S. attorney in one district binds federal prosecutors in other districts.

That’s important to Maxwell’s case because, she argues, a nonprosecution agreement secured by Epstein in Florida should’ve barred her from being charged in New York because the agreement said, in part, that “the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”

She hasn’t succeeded in her argument so far.

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-ghislaine-maxwell-appeal-epstein-trump-rcna220042

[S/V Loner]

1. I can see him offering her...

A pardon 2to3 years down the road if she says whatever he wants her to say. It is still much better than her 20 year sentence and would allow time for the whole thing to subside. The pardon could be in a contract that is sealed.

[IbogaProject]

2. She never admitted that she conspired with Mr Epstein

So we should take her at her word and leave this independent prosecution resulting in a guilty verdict based on substantial separate evidence to stand.