A November 2020 email from defense attorney Bobbi C. Sternheim to the Ghislaine Maxwell legal team, transmitting a court filing responding to 90-day detention condition reviews.

This is an internal defense team email sent on November 24, 2020, during the early stages of the criminal prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell (Case No. 20 Cr. 330). Attorney Bobbi Sternheim, Maxwell's lead defense counsel, is sharing a courtesy copy of a federal court filing that addressed Maxwell's detention conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center. The email is addressed to members of the defense team including Mark S. Cohen, Jeff Pagliuca, and Laura Menninger—all attorneys who represented Maxwell throughout her trial.

Key Highlights

• •Part of the federal criminal case against Ghislaine Maxwell in the Southern District of New York
• •Filed during the period when Maxwell's defense team was aggressively challenging her pretrial detention conditions
• •Sent by Bobbi Sternheim, Maxwell's lead defense attorney who argued Maxwell faced 'physical and emotional abuse' in detention
• •The attached filing appears to be a reply brief concerning 90-day detention condition reviews at the MDC Brooklyn

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