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Anna Burns-Francis: Ghislaine Maxwell juror regrets not disclosing sex abuse

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A juror told a judge Tuesday that failing to disclose his child abuse history during jury selection at the trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was one of the biggest mistakes of his life — but an unintentional one. "I didn't lie in order to get on this jury," the juror said. A U.S. judge questioned the juror extensively as part of an effort to decide whether the revelation about his personal history as a sex abuse survivor will spoil the verdict in the sex trafficking trial. Lawyers for Maxwell — who was present in the courtroom, clad in a dark blue jail smock — say the verdict should be thrown out. Maxwell's lawyers potentially could have objected to the man's presence on the jury, on the grounds that he might not be fair to a person accused of a similar crime. Maxwell, 60, was convicted in late December of helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse multiple teenage girls from 1994 to 2004. Sitting in a courtroom witness box, the juror repeatedly expressed regret as U.S. District Judge Alison