By Ben Feuerherd
The Ghislaine Maxwell juror who threw her case into chaos after giving a number of post-conviction interviews to the press will plead the Fifth when questioned under oath next week, according to a new court filing.
A lawyer for the juror, who was identified by his first and middle names, Scotty David, said in a letter filed Wednesday that David wonât answer questions at the March 8 hearing.
âI write to inform the Court that Juror 50 will invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination at the hearing,â the attorney, Todd Spodek, wrote in the one-page letter.
In response, federal prosecutors wrote they were in the process of seeking an internal order to compel David to testify that would grant him immunity so he could not incriminate himself and invoke his right to be silent…