The judge again refused to bail Gisline Maxwell on the grounds that she was able to escape.

A New York judge denied on Tuesday Gisline MaxwellAccording to the Associated Press, she requested bail before the trial, saying she was at a significant risk of escape.

former Jeffrey Epstein The accomplices are accused of helping Epstein recruit girls for sexual abuse between 1994 and 2004. If convicted, she will face up to 80 years in prison. Maxwell pleaded not guilty to all charges.

This is the fourth time that U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan has rejected 59-year-old Maxwell’s bail application since his arrest in July 2020. The previous application was also rejected twice by the Manhattan Federal Court of Appeals.

According to reports, Nathan cited the reasons she denied for the fourth time, including that Maxwell was a “significant escape risk” and her $28.5 million bail was not guaranteed to appear in court. Reuters.

In the latest bail request, Maxwell’s lawyer Bobby Sternheim said that her client had been physically and mentally abused by prison guards. She also cited poor and unhygienic living conditions, inadequate nutrition, difficulty in reviewing millions of legal documents, and lack of sleep.

Sternheim also claimed that it was unfair for Maxwell to be locked up after former comedian Bill Cosby and former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein According to Reuters, they were still released on bail during their respective criminal trials.

The jury selection process for Maxwell’s trial began on Thursday. The prospective jurors will meet with the judge next week to conduct oral questions to narrow the selection of 12 jurors and 6 alternate jurors. The opening statement of the trial is expected to last six weeks and is scheduled to take place on November 29.

Epstein was found dead in a cell in Manhattan Federal Prison in August 2019, where he was awaiting trial for sex trafficking.

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The judge refused bail in a two-page order, in which she also promised that Maxwell would be transferred from Brooklyn Federal Prison to her trial “in a humane, appropriate, and safe manner”. The judge said that the lawyers at the Metropolitan Detention Center guaranteed the agreements in a sealed letter.

In opposing bail, the prosecutor wrote that the latest bail application “turns to rhetoric and anecdotes that are more suitable for tabloids than briefings. Where legal arguments can be found, they are rough and unconvincing.”

A Maxwell lawyer complained that she was taken to the court for a hearing nearly six hours before the scheduled start of the courtroom last week and was poked by a guard when she briefly fell asleep in the cold cell, forcing her to wake up Come.