Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein was unavailable for comment on Monday afternoon, after being carted off to jail following a guilty verdict on two of five counts related to charges of rape and sexual assault in cases involving Miriam Haley and Jessica Mann, but one of his lawyers was on hand to provide the disgraced mogul’s thoughts on his conviction. Variety reports that Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala told assembled press that Weinstein was stunned by the rulings. “The words he said over and over again to me is, ‘I’m innocent, I’m innocent, I’m innocent. How could this happen in America?,'” Aidala said outside the lower Manhattan courtroom.
Weinstein was found guilty on Monday morning of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, but was acquitted of other charges leveled at him, including sexual predatory assault. The conviction in the...
Weinstein was found guilty on Monday morning of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, but was acquitted of other charges leveled at him, including sexual predatory assault. The conviction in the...
- 2/24/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Mere minutes after being found guilty on two counts in his rape trial, Harvey Weinstein is already starting an appeal, sources tell Deadline.
An attorney for the much-accused Oscar-winning producer is in the process of filing an appeal right now in New York State Appellate Court, we’re told, minutes after he was found guilty of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, two of five total counts.
With the 25-year maximum on the first degree charge, the conviction could see the 67-year-old Weinstein spend the rest of his life in prison. There is a four-year minimum on that conviction.
Weinstein has been remanded to custody by New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke pending sentencing on Wednesday, March 11.
After the verdict was read, defense attorney Donna Rotunno made an unsuccessful last-ditch plea to keep Weinstein free on bail due, in part, to his...
An attorney for the much-accused Oscar-winning producer is in the process of filing an appeal right now in New York State Appellate Court, we’re told, minutes after he was found guilty of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, two of five total counts.
With the 25-year maximum on the first degree charge, the conviction could see the 67-year-old Weinstein spend the rest of his life in prison. There is a four-year minimum on that conviction.
Weinstein has been remanded to custody by New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke pending sentencing on Wednesday, March 11.
After the verdict was read, defense attorney Donna Rotunno made an unsuccessful last-ditch plea to keep Weinstein free on bail due, in part, to his...
- 2/24/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Harvey Weinstein was found guilty on Monday morning of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, but was acquitted of other charges leveled at him, including sexual predatory assault. The conviction in the cases of Miriam Haley and Jessica Mann could see the disgraced former movie mogul spending the rest of his life in prison, as each carries a maximum sentence of up to 25 years. Earlier this morning, defense attorney Arthur Aidala made a motion for a mistrial, which was denied by Judge James Burke.
As Deadline reports, “Weinstein’s New York trial covered five criminal counts, including two of predatory sexual assault, one involving Haley and actress Annabella Sciorra, the other count involving Sciorra and Mann. The jury had to unanimously agree on each count that Weinstein assaulted two women, with each count carrying a possible prison sentence of 10 years to life.” In addition to the predatory counts,...
As Deadline reports, “Weinstein’s New York trial covered five criminal counts, including two of predatory sexual assault, one involving Haley and actress Annabella Sciorra, the other count involving Sciorra and Mann. The jury had to unanimously agree on each count that Weinstein assaulted two women, with each count carrying a possible prison sentence of 10 years to life.” In addition to the predatory counts,...
- 2/24/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Update, throughout Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape in the third degree and criminal sexual acts in the first degree, bringing his seven-week New York trial to a conviction in the central criminal case of the #MeToo movement.
Weinstein was remanded to custody by New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke pending sentencing on Wednesday, March 11. His defense attorney Donna Rotunno made an unsuccessful last-ditch plea to keep Weinstein free on bail due, in part, to his ill health and pain as a result of an auto accident last summer, but the judge did not grant the request, sending Weinstein to a medical unit on Rikers Island.
Four New York court marshals immediately surrounded Weinstein, seated at the defense table. As many as nine other officers were stationed alongside walls and doors in the Lower Manhattan courtroom.
Weinstein remained quiet throughout the verdict delivery, staring forward toward the judge’s bench.
Weinstein was remanded to custody by New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke pending sentencing on Wednesday, March 11. His defense attorney Donna Rotunno made an unsuccessful last-ditch plea to keep Weinstein free on bail due, in part, to his ill health and pain as a result of an auto accident last summer, but the judge did not grant the request, sending Weinstein to a medical unit on Rikers Island.
Four New York court marshals immediately surrounded Weinstein, seated at the defense table. As many as nine other officers were stationed alongside walls and doors in the Lower Manhattan courtroom.
Weinstein remained quiet throughout the verdict delivery, staring forward toward the judge’s bench.
- 2/24/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Defense attorneys in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein failed in their attempt to obtain a gag order against attorney and victims rights advocate Gloria Allred on Wednesday, prompting Allred to tell Deadline, “Harvey Weinstein is not going to silence me.”
Allred is not directly involved in this criminal trial, but has been in the courtroom every day. She represents accusers Miriam Haley, Annabella Sciorra and Lauren Marie Young outside this criminal case.
“Harvey Weinstein has obviously made efforts to silence some of my clients,” Allred told Deadline after the courtroom was cleared for a lunch break today. “He is not going to silence me.”
Defense attorney Damon Cheronis suggested earlier Wednesday that Allred is, in effect, a de facto spokeswoman for prosecutors, and that the judge’s previous admonition to the defense and prosecution against talking to the press should apply to Allred.
“Well, I wish I had that kind of authority,...
Allred is not directly involved in this criminal trial, but has been in the courtroom every day. She represents accusers Miriam Haley, Annabella Sciorra and Lauren Marie Young outside this criminal case.
“Harvey Weinstein has obviously made efforts to silence some of my clients,” Allred told Deadline after the courtroom was cleared for a lunch break today. “He is not going to silence me.”
Defense attorney Damon Cheronis suggested earlier Wednesday that Allred is, in effect, a de facto spokeswoman for prosecutors, and that the judge’s previous admonition to the defense and prosecution against talking to the press should apply to Allred.
“Well, I wish I had that kind of authority,...
- 2/19/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The prosecution in the Manhattan rape trial of Harvey Weinstein rested its case just before lunch today following a morning of largely uneventful, if occasionally vivid, loose-end-tying testimony that stood in contrast to the more dramatic and emotional displays of the last couple days.
The tenor could change this afternoon, though, when Weinstein’s defense begins calling its own witnesses, one of whom is expected to be film and TV director and writer Warren Leight. Best known for his work on work on TV’s Law & Order franchise, Leight is expected to testify about his experience directing Annabella Sciorra in the 1993 film The Night We Never Met.
Earlier in this New York Supreme Court trial, which began January 6, Sciorra tearfully told jurors that Weinstein raped her at her Manhattan apartment in late 1993 or early 1994. Her longtime friend and fellow Brooklyn native Rosie Perez confirmed that Sciorra told her about...
The tenor could change this afternoon, though, when Weinstein’s defense begins calling its own witnesses, one of whom is expected to be film and TV director and writer Warren Leight. Best known for his work on work on TV’s Law & Order franchise, Leight is expected to testify about his experience directing Annabella Sciorra in the 1993 film The Night We Never Met.
Earlier in this New York Supreme Court trial, which began January 6, Sciorra tearfully told jurors that Weinstein raped her at her Manhattan apartment in late 1993 or early 1994. Her longtime friend and fellow Brooklyn native Rosie Perez confirmed that Sciorra told her about...
- 2/6/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Early this afternoon in a Manhattan courtroom, actress and model Lauren Marie Young, whose accusations of a sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein are included in a criminal case brought against the former Hollywood producer in Los Angeles, recounted a harrowing incident in 2013.
Young described being trapped in a hotel bathroom while a naked Weinstein groped her breasts, “grazed” her vagina with one hand and masturbated himself with the other.
By the end of the afternoon, Weinstein’s defense attorney Damon Cheronis had called into question numerous details of the account. He hammered away at inconsistencies in Young’s testimony today and versions of the incident she’d conveyed previously to law enforcement agencies and district attorneys on both coasts.
At one point, with Young’s pro bono attorney Gloria Allred seated in the front row of the courtroom’s spectator section, Cheronis, his hands in thin rubber gloves, held up...
Young described being trapped in a hotel bathroom while a naked Weinstein groped her breasts, “grazed” her vagina with one hand and masturbated himself with the other.
By the end of the afternoon, Weinstein’s defense attorney Damon Cheronis had called into question numerous details of the account. He hammered away at inconsistencies in Young’s testimony today and versions of the incident she’d conveyed previously to law enforcement agencies and district attorneys on both coasts.
At one point, with Young’s pro bono attorney Gloria Allred seated in the front row of the courtroom’s spectator section, Cheronis, his hands in thin rubber gloves, held up...
- 2/5/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Actress and model Lauren Marie Young, who has said she was sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein after being lured to his hotel suite on the pretext of discussing a script she was writing, took the stand at Weinstein’s rape trial in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan today, with her testimony set to continue this afternoon.
Young’s allegations are included in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s case filed January 6, the day the New York trial got underway. The La charges allege Weinstein assaulted Young and raped another woman on consecutive nights in February 2013.
Young’s case is not among those being tried in New York; she and two other women have been called to testify here in the cases of Jessica Mann and Mimi Haleyi in an effort to establish a pattern of broader conduct by Weinstein and a history of what the law considers “prior...
Young’s allegations are included in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s case filed January 6, the day the New York trial got underway. The La charges allege Weinstein assaulted Young and raped another woman on consecutive nights in February 2013.
Young’s case is not among those being tried in New York; she and two other women have been called to testify here in the cases of Jessica Mann and Mimi Haleyi in an effort to establish a pattern of broader conduct by Weinstein and a history of what the law considers “prior...
- 2/5/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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