NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell deserves a new trial because one of the jurors who convicted her of sex trafficking withheld that he was a childhood sex abuse victim, a lawyer for the British socialite argued in court papers.
Attorney Christian Everdell asked Manhattan Federal Judge Alison Nathan in a Tuesday letter to “right a grievous wrong” by the juror, Scotty David, who allegedly did not reveal he was molested when he was a kid during the jury selection process.
“Juror 50′s responses to the jury questionnaire and questions posed to him during in-person voir dire corrupted” the trial from the outset, wrote Everdell, and warrant a complete do-over.
