An internal email forwarding Judge Alison J. Nathan's April 16, 2021 opinion on Ghislaine Maxwell's pretrial motions, which granted severance of perjury counts but denied most other defense motions.

This is an internal communication dated April 26, 2021, sharing Judge Alison J. Nathan's opinion on multiple pretrial motions filed by Ghislaine Maxwell in her federal criminal case (20-cr-00330). The opinion was significant because it separated the perjury charges—stemming from Maxwell's 2016 depositions in Virginia Giuffre's civil defamation lawsuit—from the sex trafficking charges for a separate trial. The decision noted that Maxwell's defense attorneys from the civil case, including lawyers from Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, might be called as witnesses, creating a conflict. The suppression motions regarding Boies Schiller materials were reserved for later ruling.

Key Highlights

• •Judge Nathan granted Maxwell's motion to sever the two perjury counts from the sex trafficking charges
• •The ruling noted Maxwell's defense attorneys could be witnesses regarding the perjury counts, creating a conflict of interest
• •Suppression motions regarding Boies Schiller Flexner materials were deferred for a later decision
• •This ruling helped set the stage for Maxwell's November 2021 trial on the remaining six counts

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