Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell warned Wednesday that the Justice Department’s effort to unseal grand jury testimony in her criminal sex trafficking case could severely damage her efforts to secure a retrial, according to a new court filing on Wednesday.

In a one-page filing to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Maxwell’s attorney David Markus told the court that the unsealing effort, spurred by the DOJ under a transparency measure President Donald Trump signed last month, would expose “untested and unproven allegations” that could taint any future jury pool. He wrote that releasing the materials “would create undue prejudice so severe that it would foreclose the possibility of a fair retrial” if she ever succeeds in reopening her case.

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