What to know about Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo retrial with jury selection set to get underway
Read full article: What to know about Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo retrial with jury selection set to get underwayFive years after Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and hauled to jail in handcuffs, the disgraced movie mogul returns to a Manhattan courthouse Tuesday for a new trial covering the very same allegations.
Senator opens inquiry into US Center for SafeSport’s hiring of investigator charged with sex crimes
Read full article: Senator opens inquiry into US Center for SafeSport’s hiring of investigator charged with sex crimesThe chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former police officer landed an investigator's job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations that littered his past, while also asking if the center knew he had been accused of newer crimes when working there last year.
SafeSport CEO says in email: Knowing arrested investigator fooled them is 'just sickening'
Read full article: SafeSport CEO says in email: Knowing arrested investigator fooled them is 'just sickening'The leader of the U.S. Center for SafeSport wrote in an email that the revelation of a former investigator’s arrest on rape charges was “just sickening,” while also saying there was no reason to believe he’d committed any wrongdoing while working for the center.
Appellate judges raise doubts about Weinstein's conviction
Read full article: Appellate judges raise doubts about Weinstein's convictionA New York appeals court has excoriated Manhattan prosecutors for filling out Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial last year with what one judge deemed “incredibly prejudicial testimony” from women whose allegations weren’t part of the criminal charges against him.
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Weinstein juror: #MeToo movement was not a factor in trial
Read full article: Weinstein juror: #MeToo movement was not a factor in trialJudge James Burke, left, instructs the jurors before they begin deliberating on Harvey Weinstein's rape trial, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)NEW YORK, N.Y. – The jury that convicted Harvey Weinstein of rape and sex assault did not consider the trial's implications for the #MeToo movement, one of the jurors said in an interview aired Friday. “No, zero, absolutely zero,” juror Drew Malbin said on “CBS This Morning." After a weekend off, jurors took just two more hours of deliberations to reach a verdict on all charges. The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sex crimes unless they grant permission, as Haleyi did.
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Challenges, distractions stymie Weinstein jury selection
Read full article: Challenges, distractions stymie Weinstein jury selectionHarvey Weinstein arrives at court with his attorney Donna Rotunno to attend jury selection for his sexual assault trial, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)NEW YORK, NY – The already contentious jury selection at the trial of Harvey Weinstein was stymied by more challenges and distractions Friday: denied defense requests to disqualify numerous prospective jurors and a noisy anti-Weinstein protest. Hundreds of New Yorkers have been summoned for jury duty, with most dismissed when they indicated by a show of hands that they couldn’t keep an open mind about Weinstein. The judge a lso tried to calm nerves after hearing someone gasp when he told jury candidates it was their sacred duty to serve. He called barring the public and the press from observing the process “inconsistent with having an open, transparent jury selection” and “against the law.”The case resumes Monday.
