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Comment by Less Prone on November 22, 2021 at 11:50am

Ghislaine Maxwell: Brother Ian says she will not get fair hearing at trial

"Ghislaine Maxwell's brother, Ian, has said he doubts his sister will get a fair hearing at her trial on sex trafficking and other charges which is due to start next week."

What then would he see fair, acquittal?

"I think that there are several reasons for that; the enormous amount of negative media coverage of Ghislaine for at least the last 18 months - it's only been going in one direction and that level of negative reporting which is not coming in any other direction than against her, I think it has a potential to poison the jury pool at some level if they are only hearing one side of the story and not the other."

You do bad things, you get bad publicity. But in this case the publicity has been minimal, whereas in Kyle Rittenhouse's case...