Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer has said that she should be freed from prison following Bill Cosby's release.
Cosby, 83, was released on Wednesday (June 30) after serving almost three years of his 10-year sexual assault sentence after his legal team drew attention to a 2005 technicality, which promised the actor, 83, that he would not be prosecuted.
As per NBC News, the actor went on to incriminate himself in a subsequent conversation in the knowledge that he would not face charges - a conversation that was later used to secure his conviction.
Now, Maxwell's team are hoping that Cosby's success in overturning his conviction could prevent her from going on trial for sex trafficking charges.
Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Markus, wrote in The New York Daily News that the case against Epstein's former partner should have never been brought to trial because of a legal technicality.
"She should not have to fight her case at trial and her case should be thrown out, just like Cosby's has been, because prosecutors promised Epstein when he pleaded guilty that they would not prosecute her," he wrote.
This is because Epstein gave incriminating evidence against Maxwell in 2010, but it was given to a different Florida prosecutor who promised not to charge his "co-conspirators".
Markus wrote: "If a prosecutor promises something, he should be bound by his word - just like the rest of us."
"This opinion and reasoning applies directly to Ghislaine Maxwell's case," he added.
Explaining his reasoning, the lawyer continued: "In [Maxwell's] case, Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty and struck a bargain with the prosecutors in Miami: In exchange for pleading guilty in state court, the U.S. attorney’s office agreed that it would not prosecute any of his alleged co-conspirators," Markus wrote
"But she should not have to fight her case at trial and her case should be thrown out, just like Cosby's has been, because prosecutors promised Epstein when he pleaded guilty that they would not prosecute her."
Cosby was sentenced to 10 years behind bars after he was convicted of three counts of aggravated sexual assault in 2018 of drugging and assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004, as per NBC News.
Maxwell's lawyer said that Cosby's case is ultimately proof that lawyers are bound to stand by their word.