NEW YORK - The July trial for Ghislaineon charges that she aided ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual abuse of teenage girls was postponed to the fall on Monday.
U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan said a delay of a trial scheduled for July 12 of a few months was reasonable as she directed defence lawyers and prosecutors to settle on a date by next week.“No additional delay is necessary or in the interests of justice,” she wrote in an order., 59, sought a trial delay after prosecutors added sex trafficking charges to the case against her in late March.
The new charges in a superseding indictment added a fourth accuser and stretched the timeline of the allegations from three years to a decade.'s lawyers had requested at least three additional months to prepare for trial but urged a date early next year because of the difficulty of investigating the new charges during a pandemic and meeting with a client who remains jailed without bail under conditions they say are onerous.
Prosecutors opposed the request, saying the rewritten indictment did not require a lot of additional work by the defence., arrested last July, has pleaded not guilty to all charges and her lawyers filed numerous arguments challenging them. So far, Nathan has denied efforts to dismiss some or all charges.to be a risk of flight, and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld her decision to reject a $28.