Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer says she should be freed from jail now too after Bill Cosby’s release

Ghislaine Maxwell‘s attorney claims she should be let out of jail now because Bill Cosby has been freed, claiming prosecutors promised not to charge her when they gave Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart deal in 2010.  

Cosby was freed on Wednesday because of a promise a prosecutor made in 2005 that he would not be charged. He went on to incriminate himself in a civil case and another prosecutor, years later, used those remarks to charge him. 

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that it was unconstitutional and that had he not thought he was beyond reproach, he wouldn’t have made the incriminating remarks.  

Writing for The New York Daily News on Thursday, Maxwell’s appellate lawyer David Oscar Markus, said prosecutors in New York should never have gone after her because years earlier, a different prosecutor in Florida promised Epstein in a deal that he wouldn’t charge his ‘co-conspirators.’  

Maxwell wasn’t named as one of the co-conspirators and it is in a different state that she is facing sex trafficking charges now. 

But Markus argues it’s another example of people not being able to trust prosecutors at their word. 

‘If a prosecutor promises something, he should be bound by his word — just like the rest of us,’ he wrote. 

 Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney claims she should be let out of jail now because Bill Cosby has been freed, claiming she was promised she wouldn’t be prosecuted in a round-about-way when Jeffrey Epstein got his sweetheart deal in 2010

Writing for The New York Daily News on Thursday, Maxwell’s appellate lawyer David Oscar Markus, said prosecutors in New York should never have gone after her because years earlier, a different prosecutor in Florida promised Epstein in a deal that he wouldn’t charge his ‘co-conspirators.’ Markus is shown in April at court 

In 2010, Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from an underage prostitute in Palm Beach. 

As part of his deal, he served one year in ‘prison’ – he was allowed to go to his office every day – and prosecutors promised not to charge his three unnamed ‘co-conspirators’. 

‘This opinion and reasoning applies directly to Ghislaine Maxwell’s case.

‘In her case, Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty and struck a bargain with the prosecutors in Miami: In exchange for pleading guilty in state court, the U.S. attorney’s office agreed that it would not prosecute any of his alleged co-conspirators,’ Markus wrote. 

‘But she should not have to fight her case at trial and her case should be thrown out, just like Cosby’s has been, because prosecutors promised Epstein when he pleaded guilty that they would not prosecute her. 

‘The Cosby case reaffirms that a prosecutor is bound to act with integrity and the public must be able to rely on his word. What a concept,’ he wrote. 

Maxwell is due to go on trial later this summer. She has pleaded not guilty and has always, in civil court too, protested her innocence. 

Cosby was freed by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court which ruled it was unfair that in 2005, a prosecutor promised him he wouldn’t be charged for sexually assaulting Andrea Constand. 

As a result of that promise, Cosby, the court ruled, went on to incriminate himself in a civil deposition. 

The incriminating remarks he made were then used by a different prosecutor to charge him in 2015. 

The court ruled that Cosby had his constitutional rights violated by the false promise.