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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court will in March review Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Wednesday scheduled oral arguments in Maxwell’s appeal for March 12 before a three-judge panel. Jurors found Maxwell guilty in December 2021 of five charges for recruiting and grooming four underage girls for Epstein, her former boyfriend, to abuse between 1994 and 2004. Maxwell, 62, is housed at a low-security pris…

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