{"id":29929,"date":"2021-12-17T23:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=29929"},"modified":"2021-12-17T23:32:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T23:32:37","slug":"defiant-ghislaine-maxwell-declines-to-testify-at-sex-crimes-trial-as-defence-restsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=29929","title":{"rendered":"Defiant Ghislaine Maxwell declines to testify at sex crimes trial as defence restsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA defiant Ghislaine Maxwell said on Friday that prosecutors had failed to prove her guilty of sex crimes, as her defence wound up in a trial that heard lurid claims she groomed minors for abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.Speaking for the first time since her sensational trial opened late last month, the 59-year-old British socialite addressed the New York court only to say she would not be testifying.\u201cYour honour, the government has not proven its case beyond reasonable doubt so\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3160210\/defiant-ghislaine-maxwell-declines-testify-sex?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA defiant Ghislaine Maxwell said on Friday that prosecutors had failed to prove her guilty of sex crimes, as her defence&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":29930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}