The appeals panel appeared likely to order an independent psychiatric review, at Maxwell’s expense, to assess whether she is at risk of suicide. A U.S. attorney points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) MANHATTAN (CN) — Citing invasive nightly suicide risk checkups at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers urged a panel of appeals judges on Monday to release her on bail ahead of her upcoming sex trafficking trial. The 59-year-old Briton faces eight criminal counts in the Southern District of New York, including allegations that she groomed teenage victims as young as 14 years old for abuse by her close friend, financier Jeffrey Epstein. Her attorneys say she is being mishandled on account of Epstein’s 2019 jailhouse suicide.