Harvey Weinstein found guilty of multiple counts of rape and sexual assault
Jurors in the Los Angeles trial found disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein guilty of three counts of rape and sexual assault
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A Los Angeles jury found disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of three counts of rape and sexual assault. Weinstein faced seven counts of sexual assault, but in a split verdict, per Variety, the jury acquitted him of one charge and could not reach a unanimous decision on the other three.
Deliberations began on December 2, lasting roughly 40 hours across 10 days. The 70-year-old Weinstein faced 60 years to life in prison. He is currently serving a 23-year sentence from his 2020 conviction of rape and sexual assault.
Weinstein was first charged in California in January 2020 with two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault while his New York trial was still ongoing. In February 2020, Weinstein was convicted in the New York trial of sexually assaulting two women, according to The Washington Post. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison for those charges, and the sentence was upheld this past June after a legal challenge from his lawyers but is currently on appeal. Weinstein was extradited to California in July to face charges in the state.
In November, first lady of California Jennifer Seibel Newsom took the stand to accuse the Pulp Fiction producer of rape. Newsom testified that she first met Weinstein in Toronto in 2005. Weeks later, during a meeting in Los Angeles, he invited her up to a hotel room where he proceeded to rape her. Newsom was the fourth “Jane Doe” to take the stand.
Famously, a 2017 New York Times investigation into Weinstein’s predatory behavior over the course of his career sparked the #MeToo movement and an immediate (and ongoing) conversation over sexual harassment and violence in Hollywood and the rest of the world.
At the time, the Times found at least eight settlements with women dating back to the early 1990s and stretching until 2015. In one, with actress Rose McGowan, a legal document said that Weinstein intended to “avoid litigation and buy peace” with the settlement.
If you or someone you know is suffering from sexual abuse, contact the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
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Glad the jury saw through the bullshit his lawyers were throwing around.
I’m surprised they could get an impartial jury for the LA trial, considering how much clout he had in the city’s dominant industry to how big this story has been for the past five years.
Must’ve been great sitting there in court while his own lawyers had to say “Sex with my client was transactional. It wasn’t even pleasant for all parties involved, but it wasn’t rape!!!”
Now give him a sodium nitrite milkshake and call it a day.
I know the article’s about him so it makes sense to have a photo of him.
Still made me dry heave over my keyboard.
Could have been worse… could have been a photo of his fucked up testicles.
That would’ve testi-ed everyone’s gag reflex.
Pretty ballsy of you to make that joke.
Hope I don’t get penilised.
Hey, don’t steal the cover art for my next album!
It’s much like powering through the 1/6 reports. I keep seeing rotten mango everywhere I turn.Just do what I do: stiff upper lip and several shots of Burbon.
He’s the (well, one of) reason I stopped drinking back in 2017 for the sake of my liver.
Why not a photo of a cheering crowd? If there wasn’t one outside the courthouse just use a photo of a World Cup victory celebration.
Good for him! It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!
hope he dies in jail lmao (idk what the rules are about this so I’ll add a disclaimer that of natural causes obviously, wink)
I really do want him to die of natural causes. I want him to hang on as long as possible, remaining in control of his faculties, acutely aware of exactly where he is and that he will die there, alone.
Staring up at a prison hospital ceiling for months on end. Nothing to keep him company except a noisy, flickering florescent light. Nothing to entertain him except a slowly filling coil of fly paper.
Would love to know on the grander scale who he pissed off and what he did to get thrown under the bus. O well, this is still real justice
good
I’m glad
Particularly after the Heard trial, a lot of commenters were very negative about jurors. But it’s worth remembering how much time the jury here put in to trying to reach a verdict — days of their lives as the holidays approached, devoted to doing their job as citizens. And while one might have been worried about either jurors’ historic hostility to rape claims, or jurors’ kneejerk loathing of Weinstein, the split verdict suggests a real evaluation of whether the evidence regarding each separate claim met the high bar for conviction.Good for them.
As someone whose sole experience with being on a jury played out pretty much exactly like 12 Angry Men even though there was only four of us and it was a child abuse case… I wholeheartedly agree with you.Glad they did their job to the best of their ability. It’s really stressful knowing the full weight of the trial’s outcome rests on your shoulders.
“Juries are bad” is a refrain every time a verdict is returned that someone doesn’t like. It’s always dumb.
Just a reminder that Hillary Clinton and Gavin Newsom’s wife helped Weinstein try to silence his accusers. Democrats support rapists.
So do Republican voters. Gladly, and with smiles on their faces, as they pull the lever for someone who literally bragged about getting away with sexual assault.
You want to point out that Newsom and HRC are assholes undeserving of support, I got no problem with that. But implying that Democrats somehow have a monopoly on dirtbags? You might want to do a little more research.
Oh, get lost, fake Lizardo.
Hey hey, it’s Lizardo’s impersonator again. Fuck off you worthless pile of shit.
Good, into the gore bag with you
“Wait I thought Weinstein had already been convicted and jailed for rape? Is this an old article?”(reads further)“Oh, I see, he did even more raping than we previously knew. Jesus.”
Rape me once, shame on you…
Grand. Now, lock that fucker away until sunlight becomes a fucking memory.
The kicker? That the defense used the tactics they did. Women ALWAYS risk their reputations to come forward to be cross examined, mocked, slut shamed and accused of transactional sex in public for jollies. I hope his defense team cannot sleep. And I hope he stiffs them.
Dude’s a walking carbuncle.
Hey Harv, you still laughing about how that Me Too movie wasn’t a huge hit?
I bet not…
When will the rapist be sentenced?