The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would hear an appeal from Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.
In December 2021, Maxwell was found guilty for her part in helping Epstein sexually abuse and exploit minors. She was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison in June 2022 and has been incarcerated since.
At issue, was a 2007 agreement that Epstein had made with the U.S. Att0rney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida. As a part of the agreement, Epstein and “potential co-conspirators” would be protected from future charges.
The agreement reads, in part, that “if Epstein successfully fulfills all the terms and conditions of this agreement, the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein.”
Maxwell has asserted that she is covered under the agreement because it should be binding on every U.S. Attorney’s office across the country and asked the SCOTUS to review the non-prosecution deal.
The Court denied her request.
In its denial, the U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, said that the co-conspirator clause in Epstein’s agreement was very unusual and incomparable with respect to other plea agreements.
“The case-specific interpretation of a particular NPA is not a matter that warrants this Court’s review,” Sauer wrote.
Maxwell’s denial was one of a list of 30 pages of denied petitions that the justices deal with during their long conference where justices considered roughly 2,000 petitions for review from their last conference in late June.
