Jury Convicts Harvey Weinstein For 2006 Act In Split Retrial Verdict

Former film magnate Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to one of the best accusations of his new trial on sexual crimes on Wednesday June 11. However, he was acquitted with another and the jurors could not make a verdict on a third accusation. The divided verdict provides a certain justification for its accusers and prosecutors – but also to Weinstein – in the monument #MeToo case.

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Last Friday, the strains of the jury hall began to flee the public, when a juror asked to be apologized because he felt that another was treated unjustly. Then, on Monday, the Foreston complained that other jurors pushed people to change their mind and talk about information beyond the accusations.

Wednesday, Foreserson raised similar concerns. In a closed -door discussion with prosecutors, Harvey’s defense lawyers and the judge, The counterpartly said that another juror shouted on him to stick to his opinion and at some point, “You will see me outside.” “I’m afraid inside,” The counterpartly told judge and lawyers, according to a transcription. Weinstein’s lawyers have without success a trial whenever the jurors concerned were manifested.

Weinstein himself spoke on Wednesday, urging the judge to arrest the trial. “It’s just not just”, He would have said, by the Associated Press.

“My life is at stake, and you know what? It’s not fair,” said the old hit Hollywood after making an unusual request to contact the court. “It’s time, it’s time, it’s time, it’s time to say that this trial is over.”

Wenstein’s initial conviction has been incorrectly sentenced to reputation and access to one of the most powerful men in Hollywood five years ago. It was also a pivotal moment for the #MeToo movement. But this conviction was canceled last year, and the case was referred for new trial in the same courthouse in Manhattan.

This time, a predominantly female jury condemned Harvey Weinstein to submit Miriam Haleyproducer and production assistant, to a criminal sex in 2006. The new trial was extended with new charges related to Echo Falcon. It was a Polish psychotherapist who said that Weinstein had forced oral sex on her when she was a 19 -year -old model. The jurors acquitted Weinstein of this accusation of the act of criminal sex.

What about Harvey Weinstein Third charge?

The jurors were to continue to deliberate Thursday on a charge of rape involving a hairdresser and an actor Jessica Mann. Under the New York law, the accusation of third degree rape leads to a lower penalty that the infringement of the act of criminal sex in the first degree. But the judge told Foreserson that he would not have to go to the jury room if he did not want it, adding more uncertainty to the procedure. Harvey

Weinstein, 73, denies sexual assault or rape. He chose not to testify in the new trial. His lawyers have portrayed his accusers as Hollywood aspirants and hangers who have gladly connected to him to the opportunity of the court. The team also rejecting meetings as crimes of years later to collect settlement funds and #MeToo approval.

Key women of the test are expressed after the verdict

Haley, who hesitated to testify again, spoke outside the court on Wednesday 11 June. She said that the legal process had been “exhausting and sometimes dehumanizing”. Addition, “But today’s verdict gives me hope.”

Despite the verdict linked to its allegations, Sokola called the partial verdict on Wednesday “A big victory for everyone” and the “Closing of a chapter that caused me a lot of pain throughout my life.”

In the trial, women were not too discreet about their energy for Harvey Weinstein. Kaja Kokola was faced with a passage from her private newspaper. At other flash points, Jessica Mann has annoyed with annoyance and anger against Harvey while she was passing before the court. Haley cursed him from the witness bar.

The accusers of Weinstein said that he used his influence as Tinseltown to swing career aid, do them alone, then trap them and force them to do sexual acts. They spent days on the stand to explain the complexity of links with him. Women have stayed in touch with Weinstein, saw him, and sometimes accepted or asked for invitations or favors, according to testimonies and documents. Mann said that she had a consensual relationship with Weinstein who started before and continued after raping her. The accusers said they were trying to count with what had happened, trying to suppress assaults for their careers or trying to maintain peace with an influential man.

What should you know about the case

Weinstein companies have produced and distributed a series of best Oscar winners for decades. He was held on the Oscar stage as a producer of the winner of the best film of 1999 “Shakespeare in Love”. He has also become an eminent democratic donor.

Then, in 2015, an Italian model told the police that Harvey Weinstein suddenly destroyed him in his New York office. No accusation came from the report. Two years later, the New York Times and the New Yorker detailed decades of sexual harassment and allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein. These disclosure made #MeToo a global rallying cry for awareness and responsibility for sexual misconduct.

Harvey Weinstein was finally found guilty of sexual crimes and sentenced to prison in New York and California. Its Californian appeal is underway. However, the highest New York Court granted Weinstein a new trial, saying that the former trial judge had granted detrimental testimonies.

The staff of the Associated Press, Jennifer Peltz and Michael R. Sisak, contributed to this report via AP Newsroom.