The Supreme Court has denied an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell after the convicted sex trafficker asked the nation’s highest court to review whether prosecutors fairly brought a case against her.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was found guilty of recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The justices did not provide a reason for the decision, which was included in a lengthy list of cases that the court has decided to take up or deny as justices begin their new term this month.

Maxwell’s lawyers had argued in court documents that Epstein’s agreement with federal prosecutors in Florida, which included a pledge not to prosecute him or potential co-conspirators, should apply to one of the three counts in Maxwell’s case.

The Department of Justice called on the justices to reject that argument, with Solicitor General D. John Saue stating that the U.S. attorney who oversaw such an agreement would have needed to obtain permission for the terms to apply outside that district; Maxwell was prosecuted in Florida.

Prosecutors in New York brought federal sex trafficking charges against Epstein in 2019, and he was found dead in his jail cell shortly after his arrest that year.

Maxwell was indicted in 2020 for crimes associated with Epstein’s decades-long scheme to recruit young women and girls — some as young as 14 years old — then sexually abuse them.

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