Bonus: A Prosecutor's Take on Ghislaine Maxwell Trial
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🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell—the right-hand woman of deceased financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—continues this week, with Maxwell’s defense attorneys expected to make their case Thursday. Maxwell is charged with recruiting and grooming four underaged girls to be abused by Epstein.
To better understand the details and nuance of this disturbing case, The Daily Signal spoke with Zack Smith, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Florida and a legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Christian Mizloik and this is a bonus episode of the Daily Signal Podcast. |
| 0:11.1 | On today's episode I talked to Zach Smith, legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and |
| 0:15.3 | a former prosecutor about the details of the ongoing Galane Maxwell trial. Take a listen. |
| 0:32.1 | Prosecutors in the Galane Maxwell trial rested their case Friday. Maxwell's defense team is expected |
| 0:37.9 | to begin its case Thursday. Maxwell is charged with recruiting and grooming four girls to be abused |
| 0:43.7 | by the late financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. This is between 1994 and 2004. |
| 0:50.7 | All four were miners at the time. If convicted, Maxwell could face a prison sentence of up to 70 years. |
| 0:57.2 | So with me today to discuss the trial is former prosecutor and Heritage Foundation legal fellow, |
| 1:02.2 | Zach Smith. Zach, thanks for joining me today. Of course, thanks for having me on Christian. |
| 1:06.6 | So you've been watching this case closely. Right. Unlike their in-house case, there have been no |
| 1:11.2 | cameras in the courtroom. Right. But that's standard for a federal trial. Right. No, that's |
| 1:16.8 | absolutely right. You know, when this case initially began, the trial began 10 days ago or so, |
| 1:23.6 | about two weeks ago. You know, there were some stories online that the judge had issued a media |
| 1:28.0 | gag order that no press were being allowed in. That's just not true. There are internal close-circuit |
| 1:32.7 | cameras so that folks can watch from the courthouse. Typically pool reporters are allowed in high-profile, |
| 1:39.2 | federal criminal trials. And that's exactly what is happening here. Typically, when you see other |
| 1:45.3 | televised trials like the written house trial, that's because the courts in a particular state allow |
| 1:51.8 | those proceedings to be televised. Gotcha. But there are no cameras in federal courtrooms. |
| 1:56.4 | Understood. We've all had to rely really on news reports, the media for details about this trial. |
| 2:02.0 | But you've been watching it closely. So tell me your impressions about the trial so far. |
| 2:06.1 | Well, I think certainly Jeffrey Epstein is looming large over the proceedings. There's some sense |
| 2:11.2 | that in some ways, Gillian Maxwell is standing in for Epstein. And I think that's really what her lawyers, |
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