A federal appeals court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s petition for the court to reconsider its decision to uphold its conviction of the British socialite’s role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation of minors.
The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan denied the request on Monday.
Maxwell’s attorneys filed the petition on Nov. 1 to request that all judges on the case revisit the decision, which is called an en banc review.
“En Banc may be ordered when, as here, the panel decision was based on a decision of this Court that it was not permitted to overrule,” Maxwell’s attorneys said in their petition….