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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Reed Carter. Tuesday, October seventh,
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twenty twenty five. Today on Celebrity Trials, Mark Sanchez, former
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NFL quarterback and current Fox Sports analyst, got drunk in
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Indianapolis and decided to fight a sixty nine year old
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man collecting used cooking oil for a living over a
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parking space. Surveillance video shows Sanchez doing wind sprints in
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an alley before the attack. Wind sprints, then he threw
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a senior citizen toward a dumpster, ignored pepper spray, and
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got stabbed multiple times. He's facing five years in prison
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for being the dumbest person in Indianapolis. On Saturday night,
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Anne Galaine Maxwell tried one last time to escape her
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twenty year sentence for recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein.
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The Supreme Court said no, She'll die in federal prison
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and nobody feels sorry for her. Welcome to Tuesday, where
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a celebrity throws away his career over a parking dispute
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and a sex trafficker's final appeal dies without comment from
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the highest court in America. This is Celebrity Trials. Let's
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start with the celebrity story that proves money, fame, and
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a Super Bowl ring don't make you smart. Mark Sanchez,
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thirty eight years old, former USC star, former New York
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Jets quarterback, current Fox Sports analyst got into a fight
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with a sixty nine year old man over a parking
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space in downtown Indianapolis early Saturday morning, and by the
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time it was over, Sanchez was in the hospital with
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multiple stab wounds, facing felony charges, and probably wondering how
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his life went from calling football games to fighting senior
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citizens and alleys. Saturday, October fourth, twelve thirty am, Sanchez
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is in Indianapolis to work the Colts Raiders game on Sunday.
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He's staying near Lucas Oil Stadium, and instead of being
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in bed preparing for game day, he's drunk in an
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alley behind lof Miller's Pub and eatery, confronting a man
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whose job is collecting used cooking oil from hotels. The
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victim is sixty nine years old. He works for a
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company that collects grease and cooking oil from restaurants and hotels.
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He was parked in an alley between the Western Hotel
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and the Indianapolis Marriott downtown doing his job at twelve
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thirty a m. On a Saturday, not bothering anyone, just
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collecting oil. Then Mark Sanchez shows up. Surveillance footage from
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the Marriotte shows what happened next, and it's both absurd
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and horrifying. Sanchez jogs into the alley, not walks, jogs
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like he's warming up for a game. He approaches the
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man's box truck and starts talking to him. According to
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the probable cause affidavit, Sanchez appeared intoxicated, smelled of alcohol,
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and told the worker he'd spoken to the hotel manager,
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who said the truck wasn't supposed to be there. The
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sixty nine year old tried to explain he was just
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doing his job, tried to call his supervisor. Sanchez allegedly
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blocked him from making the call. Then Sanchez opened the
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driver's door of the truck and climbed inside. The worker
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told him to leave. Sanchez didn't leave. He was drunk, aggressive,
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and apparently convinced this parking situation required his personal intervention.
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The surveillance video shows the two men circling the truck.
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Then a witness in a nearby car reported something that
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makes this story even stranger. The two men were recording
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each other with cell phones before the fight began, recording
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each other like this was some kind of social media
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confrontation instead of a drunk celebrity harassing a working man.
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But here's where it gets completely insane. Multiple sources told
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Fox fifty nine that Sanchez started doing wind sprints in
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the alley before the stabbing wind sprints. The former NFL
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quarterback was running back and forth in an alley, drunk
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in the middle of the night, preparing to fight a
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sixty nine year old oil collector like it was the
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fourth quarter of a playoff game. The fight moved to
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a large dumpster. Video shows Sanchez throwing the sixty nine
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year old toward the dumpster. The two fought between the
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truck and the wall. This is a professional athlete in
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his thirties throwing a senior citizen around because of a
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parking dispute. The worker pulled out pepper spray and sprayed
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Sanchez directly in the face. Sanchez kept advancing, didn't even
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slow down. The worker told detectives he thought this guy
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is trying to kill me, so he pulled a knife
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from his truck and stabbed Sanchez multiple times in the
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upper Torso. Police arrived to find Sanchez with multiple stab
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wounds to his chest bleeding in the alley. The sixty
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nine year old had a laceration on his face from
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where Sanchez had struck him. There was a trail of
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blood running through the alley past Pronte Pizza, where employees
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would later tell reporters they couldn't believe what happened. Sanchez
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was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. He needed surgery.
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The stab wounds to his chest were serious enough that
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he could have died, all because he decided a drunk
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argument over a parking space was worth fighting a senior citizen.
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The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department arrested Sanchez at the hospital,
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initially charged with three misdemeanors, battery with injury, unlawful entry
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of a motor vehicle, and public intoxication, but on Monday,
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the Marion County Prosecutor's Office upgraded the charges. Sanchez now
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faces a felony charge of battery resulting in serious bodily injury.
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The charge was upgraded as the severity of the victim's
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injuries became clearer. The sixty nine year old wasn't just bruised.
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He was seriously injured by a professional athlete who threw
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him around like a rag doll. Marion County Prosecutor Ryan
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Mears held a press conference Monday morning. His statement was devastating.
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This was a situation that did not need to occur.
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We are literally talking about people fighting over a parking space.
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A parking space. Mark Sanchez, who earned millions of dollars
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playing in the NFL, who now earns a comfortable living
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calling football games, got drunk and nearly got himself killed
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fighting a sixty nine year old working man over a
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parking space. Meares continued, this incident should never have happened.
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What began as a disagreement between a thirty eight year
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old former professional athlete and a sixty nine year old
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man should not have escalated into violence or left anyone
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seriously injured. Should not have escalated, But it did escalate
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because Mark Sanchez was drunk, aggressive, and apparently thought climbing
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into someone else's truck and throwing them toward a dumpster
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was an appropriate response to a parking disagreement. Sources told
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Fox fifty nine that Sanchez was not cooperative with responding
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police officers, even after being stabbed multiple times, even while
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bleeding in an alley, he was still being difficult with cops.
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That's how drunk and how stupid. This entire situation was.
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The surveillance video that detectives reviewed closely matches the victim's
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account of self defense. The sixty nine year old tried
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to de escalate, used pepper spray first, only pulled the
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knife when Sanchez kept coming, and he genuinely feared for
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his life. This wasn't mutual combat. This wasn't a bar
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fight between two drunk guys. This was a professional athlete
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attacking a senior citizen doing his job, and the senior
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citizen defending himself with whatever weapons he had available. Sanchez
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faces up to five years in prison if convicted of
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the felony battery charge, five years for fighting over a
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parking space for doing wind sprints in an alley before
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attacking a man old enough to be his father. He
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had an initial hearing scheduled for Tuesday morning today. We
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don't know yet what his plea will be. His lawyers
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haven't commented publicly beyond asking for privacy. Fox Sports released
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a statement Saturday saying they're still trying to wrap our
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heads around what happened. We're all trying to wrap our
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heads around how a successful NFL analyst threw away his
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career and his freedom fighting a sixty nine year old
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oil collector. At twelve thirty in the morning, Brady Quinn
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replaced Sanchez for Sunday's Colts Raiders broadcast. Quinn probably didn't
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expect to get the call because his colleague was hospitalized
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with stab wounds from a parking dispute. That's not how
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broadcast careers usually advance. Mark Sanchez married his wife, Perry
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in twenty twenty three. During his playing days, he dated
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some of the most famous women in Hollywood, Eva Longoria,
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Jamie Lynn Sigler, Kate Upton. He was one of the
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biggest stars in football, on and off the field. Now
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he's a cautionary tale about what happens when alcohol, ego,
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and terrible judgment collide in a downtown Indianapolis alley. The victim,
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the sixty nine year old man whose name hasn't been
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publicly released, was just doing his job collecting used cooking oil,
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working the overnight shift, not bothering anyone, and he ended
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up having to stab a drunk celebrity in self defense
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because Mark Sanchez decided his parking space was worth dying for.
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That man is seriously injured. He has facial lacerations. He
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probably has nightmares about being thrown toward a dumpster by
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a professional athlete. He had to use a knife to
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save his own life because pepper spray didn't stop a
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drunk NFL quarterback who wouldn't take no for an answer.
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Mark Sanchez could have been in bed Saturday morning, preparing
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to call a football game. Instead, he was drunk in
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an alley doing wind sprints, recording videos on his phone,
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fighting a senior citizen, getting stabbed, and throwing away everything
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he'd built since retiring from football, all over a parking space,
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all because he was too drunk and too stupid to
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walk away, All because he thought climbing into someone else's
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truck and throwing them around was an appropriate response to
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a minor disagreement. The prosecutor is right, this didn't need
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to happen. But it did happen because Mark Sanchez made
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every wrong decision possible in a three minute span, and
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now he's facing five years in prison for being the
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aggressor in a fight he should never have started. Smart
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enough to play quarterback at USC and in the NFL,
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too stupid to walk away from a parking dispute that's
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Mark Sanchez's legacy now more. In a moment, the Supreme
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Court denied Gallaine Maxwell's appeal Monday, meaning she'll spend the
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next eighteen years of her life in federal prison for
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recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse. Maxwell is
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sixty three years old. She was sentenced to twenty years
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in federal prison in twenty twenty two for carrying out
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a year's long scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually
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abuse underage girls. She's been fighting that conviction ever since,
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and Monday was her last chance. Her argument was creative.
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I'll give her that claim. She should have been protected
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by a non prosecution agreement that Jeffrey Epstein signed with
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federal prosecutors in Florida. Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution
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charges in Florida in two thousand and eight as part
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of a sweetheart deal that let him avoid serious federal charges.
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Maxwell argued that agreement covered her too, that because she
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was Epstein's girlfriend and partner in crime when he made
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that deal, she couldn't be prosecuted later in New York
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for the same conduct. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals
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rejected this argument. They ruled that the Florida agreement with
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prosecutors didn't bind authorities in New York. That seems obvious
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a deal with one US Attorney's office doesn't immunize you
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from prosecution by every other US Attorney's office in the country.
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But Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, tried to argue that
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non prosecution agreements with the United States should be nationally binding,
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that once any federal prosecutor promises not to prosecute you,
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every federal prosecutor has to honor that promise. The Supreme
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Court wasn't interested. They declined to hear the appeal without comment,
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no explanation, no dissent, just a denial, which means the
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Second Circuit's ruling stands, which means Maxwell's conviction stands, which
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means she's staying in federal prison. We are, of course,
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deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear Galaine
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Maxwell's case, Marcus said after the denial. But this fight
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isn't over. Serious legal and factual issues remain and we
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will continue to pursue every avenue available to ensure that
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justice is done. Justice is done. That's what Marcus is
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calling Maxwell's continued imprisonment, as if the woman who recruited
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teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein deserves justice, as if spending
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twenty years in prison for facilitating the sexual abuse of
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miners is somehow unfair. The Trump Justice Department defended Maxwell's
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conviction at the Supreme Court. They told the court in
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a brief filed over the summer, Max Hiwell was not
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a party to the relevant agreement. Only Epstein and the
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Florida USAO were parties. That's the obvious answer. Maxwell wasn't
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part of Epstein's Florida deal. She wasn't even charged. Then,
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she couldn't have been covered by an agreement she wasn't
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party to for conduct prosecutors hadn't yet investigated in a
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jurisdiction that didn't even know she existed. But here's the
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interesting part. The Trump administration interviewed Maxwell this summer. The
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Justice Department met with her while she was in federal custody.
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She told them she never witnessed anything untoward in Donald
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Trump's friendship with Epstein and never heard of any allegations
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that Trump acted inappropriately. Convenient timing. Maxwell gives DOJ an
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interview clearing Trump of any Epstein connection, then gets transferred
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to a minimum security prison camp shortly after she went
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from a regular federal prison to a camp, the cushiest
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form of federal custody, right after telling prosecutors what they
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wanted to hear about Trump. Correlation isn't causation, but it's
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an interesting sequence of events. Maxwell protects Trump, then gets
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better prison accommodations. Maybe unrelated, maybe not. The House Oversight
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Committee released tens of thousands of pages of Epstein documents
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last month, including a note bearing Trump's name that was
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part of a collection of letters gifted to Epstein for
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his fiftieth birthday. Trump has repeatedly denied writing that letter.
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The connection between Trump and Epstein remains murky, documented but disputed,
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but none of that matters for Maxwell's conviction. Whatever Trump's
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relationship with Epstein was or wasn't, Glaine still recruited teenage girls.
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Glane still facilitated their abuse. Glaine still deserves every year
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of that twenty year sentence. Epstein died by suicide in
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federal custody in August twenty nineteen, a month after being
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indicted on federal sex trafficking charges. He escaped justice by
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hanging himself. Glaine doesn't get that option. She's alive, convicted,
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and spending the next eighteen years watching life pass by
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from inside a federal prison camp. She's sixty three. She'll