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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document675_ Filed 06/25/22 Page1of21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ncecennee nnn nenennnennnnennnnennnennnnennnnnnnnennnnennnnnnnennnennne ) ) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ) ) —v— ) Case No. 20—CR-—330 (AJN) ) ) GHISLAINE MAXWELL, ) ) Defendant. ) nnn nee nnn nnnennnennnnennnnnnnnennnnennnennnnennnnnnnennnnennnnnnn ) MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF CRIME VICTIMS SARAH RANSOME’S AND ELIZABETH STEIN’S MOTION TO BE ALLOWED TO DELIVER ORAL VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS AT MAXWELL’S SENTENCING Sarah Ransome and Elizabeth Stein, through undersigned counsel, Robert Y. Lewis and Margaret E. Mabie of the Marsh Law Firm PLLC, hereby submits this memorandum of law in support of their motion to be allowed to deliver oral victim impact statements (“VIS”) at the sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell on June 28, 2022. (Dkt. 666). INTRODUCTION As the Court is aware, this case involves what is likely the most extensive known worldwide sex trafficking operation in recent history. At the trial of the defendant, Ghislaine Maxwell, the Government chose to prosecute a narrow sliver of the crimes that it believed Maxwell had committed. A jury found Maxwell guilty of five sex trafficking counts — Nos. 1 and 3-6 of the government's second superseding indictment. Now, at sentencing, the Court has the power and the freedom to consider the full scope of the harm that Maxwell’s crimes caused. See 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (“no limitation shall be placed on the DOJ-OGR-00010692 

Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document675_ Filed 06/25/22 Page 2of21 information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence.”). Two of Maxwell’s victims, Sarah Ransome and Elizabeth Stein, seek to assist the Court in exercising this authority by providing oral VISs at sentencing. The Court should allow these victims to present their statements d…

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