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Harvey Weinstein Trial Update - Found Guilty of Rape and Sexual Assault


DonLever

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It is a sad day if "she is doing it for the money" routine is used to justify or minimize the harm perpetrated by the rich and famous.  Not to say that does not happen but what victim want their lives dissected in the media or in court just for the money.

 

No victim would want to come forward if indeed an assault occur.   It is call victim shaming.

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28 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:

Hopefully somewhere where people in power give him the same treatment he doled out to these women.

If he gets real prison time, he'll demand to be put in "protective custody".  Sex offenders aren't too highly thought of by other prisoners.  

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10 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:

He can "demand". Lets see how that goes....

If he is found guilty as charged......   may get to experience the fear and terror  his accusers   felt  .......   karma is b......

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5 minutes ago, Monty said:

Than a murder. Really. :mellow:

That would be a double murder.

However I think Hippy is saying that given multiple witnesses, and multiple victims it would be a bigger screw up  to not get a conviction, than the botched OJ trial.

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1 minute ago, gurn said:

That would be a double murder.

However I think Hippy is saying that given multiple witnesses, and multiple victims it would be a bigger screw up  to not get a conviction, than the botched OJ trial.

Screw up? Sure.

 

Bigger screw up, though? Bigger than murder?

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12 hours ago, gurn said:

That would be a double murder.

However I think Hippy is saying that given multiple witnesses, and multiple victims it would be a bigger screw up  to not get a conviction, than the botched OJ trial.

I'm not Hippy, but yes, that was the point.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-harvey-weinstein-idUSKBN20D1GG

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial appeared to take a methodical approach in their deliberations on Wednesday, asking to review testimony from a former production assistant who says Weinstein raped her as well as from actress Rosie Perez.

The jury also asked to see texts to Weinstein from defense witness Paul Feldsher before ending their second day of deliberations. Jurors are expected to continue their discussions on Thursday.Weinstein, smiling as he left court for the day, was asked by a reporter whether he was worried. The expression on the former Hollywood producer’s face turned serious, and he shook his head no.

 

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Harvey Weinstein trial: Guilty of rape and criminal sexual act, but acquitted of top sex charges

 

  • Fallen film producer Harvey Weinsten was found guilty of rape and a criminal sexual act.
  • Weinstein, 67, was found not guilty of the most serious charges in the case, two counts of predatory sexual assault. He also was acquitted of first-degree rape in a Manhattan courtoom.
  • Allegations of sexual sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein ignited the so-called MeToo movement.

Fallen film producer Harvey Weinsten was found guilty Monday of rape and a criminal sexual act.

Weinstein, 67, was found not guilty of the most serious charges in the case, two counts of predatory sexual assault. He also was acquitted of first-degree rape in a Manhattan courtoom.

 

The charge of third-degree rape that Weinstein was convicted of relates to the claim that he attacked aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a hotel room in Manhattan in 2013.

 

The first-degree criminal sexual act charge that he was convicted of relates to the claim that forcibly performed oral sex on production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006.

 

On Friday, jurors in the trial — seven men and five women — were told by the judge to keep deliberating after they suggested they were hung on the most serious charges, of predatory sexual assault, in the case.

 

Jurors had told Judge James Burke in a note, “We the jury request to understand if we can be hung on 1 and or 3 but unanimous on the others.”

Counts 1 and 3 are charges of predatory sexual assault.

 

Count 2 is criminal sexual act in the first degree, count 4 is rape in the first degree, and count 5 is rape in the third degree.

 

Burke told jurors that any verdict that they returned must be unanimous and that if they cannot be unanimous on a specific criminal count then they cannot return a verdict for that count.

 

The judge asked the jurors to continue their deliberations, noting that it is not uncommon for a jury to have difficulty reaching a verdict. Jurors then resumed their deliberations for less than a half hour before Burke dismissed them for the weekend.

 

Burke then dismissed the jurors for the weekend and told them to come back to court to continue their discussions on Monday morning.

The actress Annabella Sciorra testified during the trial that Weinstein raped her in her apartment in either late 1993 or early 1994.

 

Weinstein was not charged in the case with raping Sciorra. But her testimony, along with that of five other women, was permitted by the judge in order to allow prosecutors to show a pattern of conduct by Weinstein.

 

Jury deliberations in the case began last Tuesday morning.

 

Weinstein did not testify at the trial.

 

Weinstein for years was one of Hollywood’s powerful men, having backed a long string of financially successful and critically acclaimed movies such as “Shakespeare in Love” and “Gangs of New York.”

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/24/harvey-weinstein-reach-verdict-in-movie-producers-me-too-trial.html

 

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