Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers have asked the judge in her case to dismiss the charges against her and let her go in the wake of Bill Cosby's release this week.
In a letter on Friday, her team of attorneys asked Judge Alison J. Nathan to dismiss the sex trafficking charges against her, claiming that she, like Cosby, was promised that she wouldn't be prosecuted under a deal that Jeffrey Epstein was given in 2010.
'Dear Judge Nathan,
'We respectfully submit this letter to bring the Court's attention to the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in which the court vacated Mr. Cosby's conviction and sentence.
'Ms Maxwell's case presents a similar situation. The government failed to abide by its promise not to prosecute.
Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney claims she should be let out of jail now because Bill Cosby has been freed, claiming she was promised she wouldn't be prosecuted in a round-about-way when Jeffrey Epstein got his sweetheart deal in 2010
'Ms Maxwell for the offenses for which she was immunized by the Epstein Non-Prosecution Agreement,' the letter says.
Cosby was freed on Wednesday because of a promise a prosecutor made in 2005 that he would not be charged. He went on to incriminate himself in a civil case and another prosecutor, years later, used those remarks to charge him.
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that it was unconstitutional and that had he not thought he was beyond reproach, he wouldn't have made the incriminating remarks.
Writing for The New York Daily News on Thursday, Maxwell's appellate lawyer David Oscar Markus, said prosecutors in New York should never have gone after her because years earlier, a different prosecutor in Florida promised Epstein in a deal that he wouldn't charge his 'co-conspirators.' Markus is shown in April at court
Writing for The New York Daily News on Thursday, Maxwell's appellate lawyer David Oscar Markus, said prosecutors in New York should never have gone after her because years earlier, a different prosecutor in Florida promised Epstein in a deal that he wouldn't charge his 'co-conspirators.'
Maxwell wasn't named as one of the co-conspirators and it is in a different state that she is facing sex trafficking charges now.
But Markus argues it's another example of people not being able to trust prosecutors at their word.
'If a prosecutor promises something, he should be bound by his word — just like the rest of us,' he wrote.
In 2010, Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting sex
