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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document597 Filed 02/11/22 Page1lof5 Uspbe SDNY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DOCUMENT I SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ELECTRONICALLY FILED || DOC #: DATE FILED: 2/11/22 United States of America, _y— 20-CR-330 (AJN) Ghislaine Maxwell, ORDER Defendant. ALISON J. NATHAN, District Judge: The Court’s chambers received the attached letter via email from counsel for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) seeking leave to file an amicus brief regarding the Defendant’s motion for a new trial. The Court issues this Order in response. If any party wishes to file an amicus brief concerning the Defendant’s motion for a new trial, it may submit to the Court via email a motion for leave to do so on or before February 18, 2022. The Court will only consider such a motion if: 1) Itis timely submitted by February 18, 2022; 2) Itis submitted by counsel admitted to practice in the Southern District of New York; 3) It indicates whether the Government and the Defendant each either consents to or opposes the motion; and 4) States the interest of the potential amicus and why the additional memorandum of law would aid this Court’s evaluation of the Defendant’s new trial motion. If the motion for leave to file meets those requirements, the Court will docket the motion and rule on it. Any motion that does not meet those requirements will not be considered by the Court nor docketed. If any motion for leave to file an amicus brief is granted, the party will be 1 DOJ-OGR-00008916