{"id":520140,"date":"2022-12-03T01:20:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/harvey-weinsteins-rape-trial-now-in-l-a-jurys-hands\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T22:20:09","slug":"harvey-weinsteins-rape-trial-now-in-l-a-jurys-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/harvey-weinsteins-rape-trial-now-in-l-a-jurys-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"#Harvey Weinstein\u2019s Rape Trial Now in L.A. Jury\u2019s Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2884fe31949\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2884fe31949\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/harvey-weinsteins-rape-trial-now-in-l-a-jurys-hands\/#Harvey_Weinsteins_Rape_Trial_Now_in_LA_Jurys_Hands\" >Harvey Weinstein\u2019s Rape Trial Now in L.A. Jury\u2019s Hands<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Harvey_Weinsteins_Rape_Trial_Now_in_LA_Jurys_Hands\"><\/span>Harvey Weinstein\u2019s Rape Trial Now in L.A. Jury\u2019s Hands<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Over the course of five weeks, 44 witnesses have testified in Harvey Weinstein\u2019s trial over accusations that he sexually assaulted four women and four others whose accusations didn\u2019t lead to charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Prosecutors, wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing up their closing arguments on Friday, said that the Jane Doe accusers and witnesses individually came forward without knowing each other\u2019s stories to take down a \u201ctitan of the film industry\u201d who weaponized his power to \u201cprey on women\u201d in his orbit. They detailed a consistent pattern across the assaults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Advancing a clashing portrayal of the allegations, a lawyer for Weinstein countered that his accusers either outright lied about the incidents or engaged in \u201ctransactional sex.\u201d He argued that prosecutors offered so many witnesses \u2014 especially those whose claims aren\u2019t at the center of the trial \u2014 to prop up what the defense described as a weak case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cTake my word for it \u2014 five words that sum up the entirety of the prosecution\u2019s case,\u201d said Alan Jackson, representing Weinstein. He said that Jane Does No. 1 and 2 \u201csimply lied,\u201d arguing that they offered \u201cfar-fetched, unsupported stories,\u201d while Jane Does No. 3 and 4 had consensual sex with Weinstein to further their careers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    A Los Angeles jury of nine men and three women will now vet the credibility of the accusers and witnesses to decide Weinstein\u2019s guilt. He\u2019s charged with seven counts of sex crimes, including rape, in connection with the assaults of four women from 2004 to 2013. Midway through the trial, four charges tied to a fifth Jane Doe were dropped without explanation. The disgraced movie mogul is currently serving a 23-year sentence after being convicted in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    During closing arguments, defense attorney Jackson extensively challenged testimony from four witnesses who testified about uncharged sexual assaults. He keyed in on the account of Ambra B., who met Weinstein at Radio City Music Hall in 2015 and was urged by her agent to take a meeting with him. She reported Weinstein to law enforcement after he allegedly groped her breasts and put his hand up her skirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIf you don\u2019t trust me then we have no reason to do anything and you will lose big opportunities,\u201d Weinstein said to her at a meeting following the incident in a police sting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Prosecutors spent the majority of their closing arguments arguing that Weinstein\u2019s alleged rape of Ambra B. demonstrates a \u201crecorded pattern\u201d across his assaults. They stressed how he used the offer of a meeting to discuss her career as bait to lure her into an isolated hotel room, like the Jane Doe accusers, to assault her. Marlene Martinez, a deputy district attorney, said that the eight women who testified in the trial described identical accounts of how they were assaulted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThese are 8 women who do not know each other,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cThey\u2019ve never even met. Yet they all describe the same conduct by the same man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In one alleged assault, Weinstein allegedly barged into Jane Doe No. 1\u2019s hotel room, where he pulled the actress into the bathroom, pushed her over the sink and raped her. In another incident, Weinstein backed Jane Doe No. 3 into a corner, reached inside her shirt to grope her breasts and masturbated onto the floor \u2014 another common element across the alleged assaults. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Weinstein\u2019s attorney Jackson urged the jury to ignore Ambra B.\u2019s testimony, arguing that she\u2019s only a \u201cnamed witness, not a Jane Doe.\u201d He said that that other accusers had access to the details of her allegations, implying that they coordinated their accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThey want to use this evidence to pile onto Harvey Weinstein,\u201d Jackson added, referring to prosecutors offering four named witnesses testifying about uncharged sexual crimes in addition to numerous corroborating witnesses backing up their accounts that they were assaulted. \u201cIt has nothing to do with the actual evidence in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The defense stressed jury instructions directing jurors to ignore testimony from a witness who they believe lied on the stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In trials involving sexual assault, a statute in the California evidence code allows jurors to use individual charges to corroborate others and to consider evidence involving prior bad acts, even if they didn\u2019t lead to charges. Weinstein appealed his conviction in New York, which was rejected, on the basis that such testimony from three women improperly tainted the jury against him. He\u2019s expected to do the same if he\u2019s convicted in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>doesn\u2019t typically name people who say they were sexually assaulted unless they voluntarily come forward. Several of the women who testified against Weinstein have disclosed that they were assaulted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Among them is Jennifer Siebel <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>om, who was a relatively unknown actress when she met Weinstein at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005 before marrying Gov. Gavin Newsom. She testified that Weinstein raped her after their initial encounter during a meeting he set up to discuss her career, bursting into tears when asked to identify the disgraced movie mogul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cHe\u2019s wearing a suit and a blue tie, and he\u2019s staring at me,\u201d she said from the witness stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Weinstein has maintained that he and Siebel Newsom had consensual sex in what his lawyer called a \u201ctransactional relationship,\u201d like he had with Jane Doe No. 3. Jackson said she had sex with Weinstein dozens of times, trading on the access that he could provide her. He also claimed that she brought her allegations too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    On rebuttal, Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson questioned why the defense would raise the issue of the statute of limitations when Weinstein maintains that he didn\u2019t assault her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThe fact they\u2019re contesting this is really telling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The prosecutor challenged arguments that Siebel Newsom gained anything from her relationship with Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIf this is transactional, what did she get?\u201d he asked. The prosecutor also emphasized Weinstein\u2019s lawyer Mark Werksman calling Siebel Newsom \u201cjust another bimbo that slept with Harvey Weinstein to get ahead\u201d by making herself a \u201cprominent victim.\u201d He said she made herself a target of unwanted attention by becoming a part of the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In his final remarks, Thompson directed jurors to look at a consistent method in which Weinstein allegedly assaulted his eight accusers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cYou can tell from the pattern that Weinstein raped the women who testified in this case,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The argument capped off the prosecution to the five week trial on the ninth floor courtroom of the Clara Shortridge Foltz criminal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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