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[newmedman]

I'm not sure. Apparently back in 2007 when they moved the federal case in Florida to the state court people got immunity...

Maxwell's appeals have focused on the controversial non-prosecution agreement Epstein signed in 2007 with Alexander Acosta, who at the time served as the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. The agreement, approved in court in 2008, allowed Epstein to serve a light sentence on a single prostitution solicitation charge even though law enforcement investigators believed he had abused dozens of girls.

The agreement says that the United States "will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein."

The judge who oversaw Maxwell's trial previously ruled that the terms were impossibly broad and could not be applied to Maxwell's case. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, ruling in September that the non-prosecution may have bound federal prosecutors in Florida, but not in the Southern District of New York, which brought the charges.

David Oscar Markus, a prominent Florida-based criminal defense lawyer representing Maxwell in her Supreme Court appeal, said in an April brief that the language should have protected her from prosecution. He said that different courts across the country have come to different conclusions about the scope of non-prosecution agreements and that the Supreme Court should review the issue.

"Despite the fact that the term 'United States' has a widely accepted meaning in perhaps every other context, when this term is used in a plea agreement, it means something different in New Jersey than it does across the river in New York City," Markus wrote.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ghislaine-maxwell-sex-trafficking-conviction-appeal-supreme-court-doj-epstein-2025-7