DOJ-OGR-00020887.pdf

--- Page 1 --- The image displays a news article about the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, with a sketch of the courtroom at the top. The article is written in black text on a white background. * **Header** + Case number: 22-1426 + Document number: 58_02/28/2023 + Page number: 3475901 + Page count: 221 + Date: 1/26/22, 8:52 PM + Case number: 1:20-cr-00333GDBJG + Case title: Ghislaine Maxwell * **Sketch of the courtroom** + A courtroom sketch with a judge's bench, a witness stand, and a jury box + The sketch is colored in shades of purple, orange, and brown * **Article** + Title: NEW YORK, Jan 5 (Reuters) - During jury deliberations after the trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, some jurors initially doubted the accounts of two of her accusers, one member of the jury said on Tuesday night. + Text: This juror, who asked to be identified only by his first and middle names, said some of the jurors had issues with the credibility of witnesses known as Jane and Carolyn, two of the four women who testified that Maxwell set them up with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein as teenagers. + Text: He said that after some of the jurors questioned the accuracy of the two women's memories, he decided to share his own experience of being sexually abused as a child. He said that he remembered most important elements of what happened to him, but not every single detail. That swayed some jurors, he said. + Text: "When I shared that, they were able to sort of come around on, they were able to come around on the memory aspect of the sexual abuse," Scotty David, a 35-year-old Manhattan resident, told Reuters in a phone interview. He gave an earlier interview to The Independent. + Text: He added that coming to a unanimous verdict "wasn't easy, to be honest." + Text: "There's a room of 12 people and we all have to be on the same page and we all have to understand what's going on," he said. "And then we have to agree. So that's partly why it took so long." + Text: Maxwell, 60, was convicted on Dec. 29 of recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual encounters with Epstein. The conviction followed five full days of deliberations. * **Footer** + Date: 2/16 + DOJ-OGR-00020887 The article discusses the Ghislaine Maxwell trial and the deliberations of the jury. The sketch of the courtroom shows the judge's bench, witness stand, and jury box. The article quotes a juror who shared his own experience of being sexually abused as a child, which helped sway some jurors' opinions. The juror also mentions that there was a room of 12 people and they all had to be on the same page to understand what was going on. The article concludes with the conviction of Maxwell on December 29, 2021, after five full days of deliberations.