Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York rejected Maxwell’s habeas corpus petition, which she filed herself without legal representation. Maxwell was convicted of multiple felonies at her December 2021 trial for conspiracy to abuse underage girls with Jeffrey Epstein, whom Engelmayer referred to as “the notorious pedophile.” She then lost an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Supreme Court, which denied her petition for review last year.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas after being transferred from a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla.