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This legal document, authored by attorney William Julié and filed on December 14, 2020, provides a background on the bail hearing of Ghislaine Maxwell held on July 14, 2020. It highlights the US Government's argument and the Court's decision to deny bail, both of which centered on Maxwell's French citizenship and France's policy of not extraditing its nationals, which established her as a flight risk. The report's stated purpose is to legally evaluate the validity of the claim that France does not extradite its citizens.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| William JULIÉ | avocat à la cour – attorney at law |
Author of the document.
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| Ghislaine Maxwell | Defendant |
Subject of a bail hearing on July 14, 2020. Described as a dual citizen of the United States and a citizen of France.
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| US Government | Government agency |
Made a motion to detain the defendant, Ghislaine Maxwell, during her bail hearing.
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| Department of Justice | Government agency |
Its attachés in the United Kingdom and France were spoken to by the US Government regarding extradition policies.
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| The Court | Judicial body |
Denied bail to Ghislaine Maxwell.
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2020-07-14
A bail hearing for Ghislaine Maxwell where the US Government argued for her detention based on flight risk, citing her French citizenship and France's non-extradition policy. The Court denied bail.
United States
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Location of Department of Justice attachés contacted by the US Government.
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Location of Department of Justice attachés, country of Ghislaine Maxwell's citizenship, and a nation that reportedly ...
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The country where the legal proceedings against Ghislaine Maxwell are taking place and to which France will not extra...
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Mentioned as the country that would make an extradition request.
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Address listed in the footer of the document.
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Relationships (2)
The US Government is the prosecuting party in a legal case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the defendant, and argued for her detention.
William JULIÉ, an attorney, has authored a legal report analyzing the legal arguments in Ghislaine Maxwell's case, specifically regarding French extradition law.
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"The government has spoken with the Department of Justice attachés in the United Kingdom and France. With respect to France, we have been informed that France will not extradite a French citizen to the United States as a matter of law, even if the defendant is a dual citizen of the United States."Source
— US Government
(A point made during Ghislaine Maxwell's bail hearing on July 14, 2020, in support of the motion to detain her.)
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"Ms Maxwell’s history and characteristics support the position of her posing a risk of flight. Ms Maxwell has substantial international ties and could facilitate living abroad if she were to flee the United States. She holds multiple foreign citizenships, has familial and personal connections abroad, and owns at least one foreign property of significant value. In particular, she is a citizen of France, a nation that does not appear to extradite its citizens"Source
— The Court
(The Court's findings on the grounds for which bail was denied to Ghislaine Maxwell.)
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Case 1:20-cr-00330-AJN Document 97-22 Filed 12/14/20 Page 6 of 30
William JULIÉ
avocat à la cour – attorney at law
avocat à la cour – attorney at law
Background
1. At the bail hearing of Ms Ghislaine Maxwell on 14 July 2020, the US Government made the following point in support of its motion to detain the defendant:
“The government has spoken with the Department of Justice attachés in the United Kingdom and France. With respect to France, we have been informed that France will not extradite a French citizen to the United States as a matter of law, even if the defendant is a dual citizen of the United States.”²
“The government has spoken with the Department of Justice attachés in the United Kingdom and France. With respect to France, we have been informed that France will not extradite a French citizen to the United States as a matter of law, even if the defendant is a dual citizen of the United States.”²
2. The international ties of Ms Ghislaine Maxwell and her French nationality appear as one of the grounds for which bail was denied by the Court, which found that:
“Ms Maxwell’s history and characteristics support the position of her posing a risk of flight. Ms Maxwell has substantial international ties and could facilitate living abroad if she were to flee the United States. She holds multiple foreign citizenships, has familial and personal connections abroad, and owns at least one foreign property of significant value. In particular, she is a citizen of France, a nation that does not appear to extradite its citizens”.
“Ms Maxwell’s history and characteristics support the position of her posing a risk of flight. Ms Maxwell has substantial international ties and could facilitate living abroad if she were to flee the United States. She holds multiple foreign citizenships, has familial and personal connections abroad, and owns at least one foreign property of significant value. In particular, she is a citizen of France, a nation that does not appear to extradite its citizens”.
3. The present report intends to evaluate whether the contention that France is a nation that does not extradite its citizens is correct as a matter of law.
4. It will first set out the various steps of the French extradition procedure (Part I), and then outline the grounds on which extradition requests are analyzed under French law, and especially the status of the rule against extradition of nationals, in order to assess the application of these principles to an extradition request made by the USA, in particular where, as in this case, the requested person has executed an irrevocable waiver of his/her right to contest extradition and is present in France only because she fled the United States in violation of her bail conditions. (Part II).
² At p. 27 of the transcript.
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