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In an elongated selection process, the twelve jurors were selected for the new edition of the process against Filmmogul Harvey Weinstein. In advance there were resignations and commitments. Weinstein spokesman Juda Engelmayer described the procedure as “rigorously and grueling”. He hopes for an impartial assessment of the facts.
Now the pool of 300 people is finally sieved. Seven women and five men have been sworn in, six replacement jurors are ready. This Wednesday (April 23) the opening plea in the New York court should begin
As is well known, Weinstein’s lawyer team had achieved that the 2020 debt had to be withdrawn due to rape and sexual coercion last year due to procedural errors.
Capital weakening of the “#metoo” movement?
The statements of women also led to allegations that were not part of the closer indictment. In addition, Weinstein in the cross -interpretation was put in the pliers in a “highly disadvantageous” and legally borderline way.
Weinstein had always given every guilt. In his defense, it was unanimously claimed that it was about mutually acceptable sexual contacts.
The new wine stone process is discussed against the background of the social US climate under the government of Donald Trump. Some voices fear a capital weakening of the “#metoo” movement.
The industry magazine “Hollywood Reporter” Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala quotes, which rely on the fact that the alleged climate change around #metoo will have an impact in favor of his client this time. Or at least not against him. “People realize that the phrase ‘believes the women’ is an anti-American and unfair idiotic statement,” he preaches with patriot pathos. “We should not believe everyone, but with our common sense whether they say the truth.”
At the center of the first procedure in 2020, the allegations of two women who are now being negotiated a second time were: Production assistant Mimi Haleyi is said to have been forced to oral sex from Weinstein in 2006. He is also said to have raped the actress Jessica Mann in 2013.
Procedure duration of five weeks?
The public prosecutor officially brings another case to court for these accusations. A woman accuses Weinstein to have also forced her for oral sex in 2006. This case was not taken into account in the first round of negotiations.
Process observers expect a procedure of five weeks.
US boulevard media addressed both Weinstein’s detention conditions, so Rikers Island was a “hell hole”, as well as his ailing state of health. Heart disorders, tongue infection, diabetes led to a laying during the process duration to the “Cosy” Bellevue Hospital, where he would see CNN all day, how the “New York Post” spilled.
If there is an acquittal in the new New York process, the 73-year-old would nevertheless remain in custody. In 2023 he was sentenced to an additional 16 years in Los Angeles for sexual crimes.