Harvey Weinstein found guilty in landmark #MeToo moment

Source: Politico | February 24, 2020 | Associated Press

He was found guilty of criminal sex act for assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 and third-degree rape of a woman in 2013.

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein was convicted Monday at his sexual assault trial, sealing his dizzying fall from powerful Hollywood studio boss to archvillain of the #MeToo movement.

He was found guilty of criminal sex act for assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 and third-degree rape of a woman in 2013. The jury found him not guilty on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault, that could have resulted in a life sentence.

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The conviction was seen as a long-overdue reckoning for Weinstein after years of whispers about his behavior turned into a torrent of accusations in 2017 that destroyed his career and gave rise to #MeToo, the global movement to encourage women to come forward and hold powerful men accountable for their sexual misconduct.

The jury of seven men and five women took five days to find him guilty.

The case against the once-feared producer was essentially built on three allegations: that he raped an aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013, that he forcibly performed oral sex on Haleyi and that he raped and forcibly performed oral sex on “Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra in her apartment in the mid-1990s.

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    But Weinstein was acquitted on some of the charges, which makes me think that the jury did not buy the stories of some of the accusers. That’s a good thing because while MeToo may have accused some women who wee truly raped to come forward, it has also spawned a number of false (or at least unprovable) accusations against famous people for who know what reasons — money? notoriety? a book deal? or maybe just that these women don’t like the men they accused.

    I have no doubt that Weinstein was a bad guy and that he forced himself on a number of women. But I would hate to see any man, even one as disagreeable as Weinstein, railroaded.

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