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The judge presiding over the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell urged jurors to work longer hours, citing the spike in COVID-19 cases in New York City and the increasing risk that jurors and trial participants may need to quarantine.

in her previous requests to get the jury to work an extra day last week and longer hours this week as it decides whether Maxwell recruited and groomed teenage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein. The jury declined to work an extra day last week.

“We now face a high and escalating risk that jurors and trial participants may need to quarantine,” Nathan told lawyers. “We are simply in a different place regarding the pandemic than we were a week ago.”Late Monday, the judge told jurors they should expect to deliberate until at least 6 p.m. beginning Tuesday rather than stopping at 5 p.m., as they had earlier.

Fueled by the omicron variant, coronavirus cases in the city have rocketed from an average of about 3,400 a day in the week that ended Dec. 12 to 22,000 in the week that ended Sunday. Laura Menninger, a defense lawyer, told Nathan on Monday that any suggestion that the jury stay later “is beginning to sound like urging them to hurry up.”

 

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Bill Clinton was on Epstein's jet 28 times and on his island. Epstein was at the Clinton Whitehorse 18 times. Maxwell was at Chelsea's wedding. Chelsea was at Epstein's ranch. In the 90s Donald Trump called Epstein a creep & banned him from mar-a-logo

...or rather the rest of the year !

They already cancelled Jizzlane's b'way debut in 'Call Me Madam,' too!

It's not hard to figure out this wicked witch is guilty. What's the holdup?

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