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tulipsandroses

(7,770 posts)
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 08:30 PM Thursday

Food for thought. If Maxwell gets a pardon, possibility of NY State charges???

Might be tough depending on the statute of limitations. ??
I'm no legal scholar but if it is possible, NY State should be right there to arrest her when she walks out.

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Ocelot II

(126,300 posts)
1. Depends on whether the statute of limitations applies to individual cases.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 08:35 PM
Thursday

For survivors of sexual assault in New York who were under 18, and before the Child Victims Act (CVA) was passed on January 28, 2019, the statute of limitations expires when they turn 23. If the abuse or assault happened after the CVA was passed, the survivor has until they are 55 to file a claim.

For adult survivors, the statute of limitations in New York is generally three years. However, legislation passed in 2019 allows most adult survivors of sexual abuse and assault a 20-year statute of limitations.

tulipsandroses

(7,770 posts)
3. Thanks. US Virgin Islands does not have statute of limitations. However looks like they would not be able to arrest her
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 08:51 PM
Thursday

Am I right that they would have to get her extradited. ???
She is in FL currently. Gotta wonder if FL would comply with an extradition.
Probably not.

Ocelot II

(126,300 posts)
4. The defendant would be charged in the state where the crime occurred.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 08:55 PM
Thursday

A lot of Maxwell's pimping for Epstein took place in NYC.

tulipsandroses

(7,770 posts)
6. Thanks. Gotta hope that she is not freed. If she is, the GOP should forever be known as the party that let a pedophile
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:01 PM
Thursday

free. Someone mentioned she would be getting her own sweetheart deal. Nightmare for the victims.

BOSSHOG

(43,445 posts)
2. A pardon of Maxwell
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 08:50 PM
Thursday

Will be a blatant admission of guilt by Trump regardless of the nonsense rationale.

tulipsandroses

(7,770 posts)
7. Yeah, I know but if she doesn't have to spend 20 years in prison, she won't care
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:04 PM
Thursday

How far we have sunk, the president of the USA is waiting on exoneration from a convicted pedophile.

BOSSHOG

(43,445 posts)
8. My post was poorly worded
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:07 PM
Thursday

I meant that it would be an admission of guilt by TRUMP for whatever is in his Epstein file.

tulipsandroses

(7,770 posts)
9. Oh yeah, I agree with that. It wouldn't stop people from talking about it.
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 09:34 PM
Thursday

People are still going to want to see the files.

Traildogbob

(11,569 posts)
5. What if
Thu Jul 24, 2025, 08:58 PM
Thursday

Maxwell hates that trump walked untouched. Now she is paying the price and seems she was very close to Einstein. And she may full well think trump ordered his death.
Now she has a chance to sink him, I mean destroy everything trump, with a deal from prosecutors maybe gets a lesser sentence in a better place. And just maybe not feel as much a monster for her role in the victims.
Pipe dream I know, but we gotta have dreams .

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