“As a result of what happened to Mr. Epstein, Ms. Maxwell is treated worse than other similarly situated lecturers, which has a significant impact on her ability to prepare a defense and be ready for trial on the scheme set by it. Court, “her lawyers told the judge.
Since her arrival in Brooklyn after her arrest in New Hampshire, Maxwell has been kept in solitary confinement, where she is being examined 24 hours a day, her lawyers told the judge. She was on suicide watch until recently, she wrote, “despite the fact that, unlike Mr. Epstein, she has never committed suicide and was never diagnosed as exhibiting risk factors for suicide,” and she has been subjected to various body scans and cell searches.
Epstein died while waiting last year for a trial on charges of sexual trafficking at another federal facility, the Metropolitan Correctional Center of Manhattan. The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner said Epstein died of suicide by hanging.
Maxwell will not be able to properly prepare her defense for trial if she continues to be held in such restrictive conditions, her lawyers wrote, asking to have her granted privileges granted to other pretrial prisoners and increased access to a computer terminal.
In the letter to the judge, her attorneys also asked New York federal prosecutors to reveal the identities of the three minor victims they cited in the indictment against Maxwell, so that she and her attorneys “the alleged conduct” can investigate meaningfully. ” Such disclosure would be subject to the protective mandate imposed by the court, and would therefore not be made public.
The judge instructed prosecutors to respond Thursday.
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