charges. cameras will not be permitted inside the courtroom for maxwell s trial, but we re staying on top of all of the developments with our reporters who are at the courthouse for us. what are we expecting? reporter: well, ana, the judge has just sworn in the jury, 12 jurors and six alternates. now they are at a lunch break, but when we return in half an hour from now prosecutors will begin with their opening statements. they say that they expect it will take 25 minutes to lay out their presentation of the evidence. maxwell has been charged with six criminal charges, three counts of conspiracy, one count of enticing minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts and a second count of the transportation of those minors to engage in illegal sex acts and another count of sex trafficking. if convicted, she could face decades in prison. prosecutors have accused maxwell of helping her one-time boyfriend and longtime accomplice jeffrey epstein, help him recruit, groom and sexually
six charges, a lot date back to the 1990s and a lot of activities that took place decades oak. how much of a complicating factor is that for prosecutors? yeah, ana. it is somewhat complicated. you know, the scope of this trial is very limited. this is not about, you know, the enigma of jeffrey epstein. it s really about whether maxwell groom and lured these four girls who are women now, girls underage at the time, tone game in sexual activity knowing that they were minors. the prosecution has a burden beyond a reasonable doubt to prove that she was a co-conspirator and she participated in this traffic scheme. what s really interesting this indictment, ana, that you pointed out, you know, it s very picturesque. page 2 has a picture of the two co-conspirators being epstein and maxwell not something that you ve seen in an indictment and followed by the properties that is the crime scene and the government has to prove beyond a
and you know i think if people were vaccinated we d seed less waves of infection and that has to be the goal if we re going to get the economy back to full swing and supply chains where we want to see them and inflation back down. need to get on the other side of the pandemic and the most logical way of getting there is get people vaccinated. thanks so much for taking the time. pleasure you have to with us. sure. she s accused of grooming underage girls for jeffrey epstein and his rich powerful friends. now she s finally on trial. what we are learning on day one of this trial involving ghislaine maxwell next. there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world.
girls, even being in the room when epstein abused them, but defense bobbi sternheim question that, telling the jury maxwell is a convenient stand in for the man who can not be here. epstein dade in august 2019 while waiting trial in what officially is criewld a suicide. maxwell had been in federal custody since june 2020, not far from the federal prison in manhattan where epstein was found hanging in his cell. six counts in the indictment, the most severe which is sexual traffic of minors. if ghislaine maxwell is convicted of that count, she may spend the rest of her life in prison. reporter: maxwell s trial is expected to last through the holidays and it s unclear if she ll take the stand in her defense, possibly portraying herself as a victim of epstein s as well.
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