A Manhattan federal judge on Monday blocked Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys from telling jurors at her upcoming sex-trafficking trial about a 2008 agreement that protected Jeffrey Epstein and then unnamed co-conspirators from prosecution in Florida.

U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan of the Southern District of New York ruled from the bench that affirmative evidence of the controversial non-prosecution agreement held “little probative value” in the case, which accuses Maxwell of procuring underage girls for sex with Epstein, the deceased financier who died by suicide while awaiting his own federal trial in 2019.