'It's an absolute disaster,' a former federal prosecutor told Insider. 'This entire conviction may get tossed and we may have to retry the case.'
that they also shared a personal experience of sexual abuse that "appeared to help shape the jury's discussions."Prosecutors filed a letter on Wednesday requesting an inquiry into the remarks,reported. Shortly after, Maxwell's attorneys filed two letters requesting a new trial.
During jury selection, attorneys go to great lengths to avoid selecting someone who would be biased, especially in cases as notorious as Maxwell's. Barhoma said he didn't want to accuse the juror of lying but said there were two reasons a person might lie during jury selection. Prosecutors requested an inquiry because they had an ethical duty to flag to the court concerns of possible prejudice, Rahmani said. But they also took the unusual step of requesting that David be appointed an attorney.
A courtroom sketch of the jury receiving instructions before it began deliberations in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate accused of sex trafficking, in New York City on December 20.Another critical factor that could help Maxwell is that both jurors said they believed their comments helped persuade the jury to deliver a guilty verdict.
"I know what happened when I was sexually abused. I remember the color of the carpet, the walls. Some of it can be replayed like a video," David told The Independent. "But I can't remember all the details. There are some things that run together."