NEW York, April 24th (askanews) – The defense of Harvey Weinstein says that the jurors “will not have no choice” if not that of declare the former omnipotent film producer not guilty of rape and sexual violencewhile the former Miramax Studios co-founder comes again tried after the scandalous revocation of his sentence last year.
The lawyer Arthur Aidala: “On behalf of Mr. Weinstein’s team, the opening statements have ended, We believe we have presented the jury a rather convincing topic: When they listen to the tests from the witnesses, they will be submerged by inconsistencies and reasonable doubts. To the point that they will have no choice but that, when they enter that deliberative room, to openly say that people have not shown their theses beyond any reasonable doubt and to declare the Mr. Weinstein not guilty for all accusations“.
“When he wanted something, he took it”, “he didn’t accept a no answer”on the other hand, said on Wednesday 23 April the Prosecutor Shannon Lucey At the opening of the procedure, in front of the jurors who listened carefully and in the presence of the accused who sat in a wheelchair. Suffering from multiple health problems, today Weinstein, 73 years oldwhose fall in 2017 kicked off the movement global #metooa pale figure appears in the classroom of the criminal court of Manhattan.
“Here, we don’t believe they are at all volunteers in a mutually advantageous relationshipin which Mr. Weinstein helped them in certain things of their life and, in return, spent quality time with him in a romantic way “.
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“Five years ago, Me Too and that movement were the most important thing in the world. And it has been so diminished by the tragedies that have happened in the last five years, so the jurors will have to maintain an open mind and look at the question with the right perspective, that is, common sense”.
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