Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of a chief of accusation of sexual assault in the new trial, acquitted in the second

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced on Wednesday for an accusation of sexual assault in his new trial in New York and acquitted a second. The jury was ordered to continue to deliberate on a third account.

The jury recognized Weinstein guilty of force the former production assistant “Project Runway” Miriam Haley to a sexual act in 2006, and acquitted him from a second accusation of sexual assault on the former model Kaja Sokola, also in 2006.

The third degree accusation of rape brings a sentence lower than the criminal sex law in the first degree under the law of New York State.

The panel of seven women and five men – the first asymmetrical jury to which Weinstein faced through three trials – began to deliberate at the end of last week. On Monday, after three days of deliberations, the jurors pointed out that they had trouble legal and interpersonal problems, reporting intestine struggles and taking into account inappropriate evidence.

The counterpontctor had declared to the judge that some jurors were elegant on others and pushed them to change their minds on the basis of information which was not presented in court – the very question which sparked the new trial after a court of appeal ruled in favor of Weinstein last year.

Weinstein is still in a grip for a 16 -year -old sentence in California, where he was found guilty in December 2022. This verdict was under the same nature which had his sentence rejected in New York in 2022, due to the inappropriate testimony of women who declared that they have been attacked, but whose accusations were not officially charged.

Although Weinstein told his lawyers that he wanted to testify for his own defense this time – which would have been very unusual – they finally decided that it was too risky. However, he took the unusual measure to grant an interview in prison, to Candace Owens, telling the conservative commentator that sexual meetings with women were consensual and purely “transactional”.

Three women took the floor to accuse Weinstein in the new Manhattan trial. Sokola, the only new witnesses who had not testified during the New York trial in 2020, told the jury on May 8 that Weinstein had force oral sex on her in a Manhattan hotel in 2006.

Mann said on May 20 that she had started a consensual sex with Weinstein, but after trying to finish him by telling her that she saw someone else, he caught, trained, undressed with force and raped in 2013. Another accuser, Haley, said on April 30 that Weinstein had forced oral sex on her in 2006, also in a hotel room.

Throughout the three trials, Weinstein denied any reprehensible act, saying that sex with budding actresses was to deceive his wife, but that he has never attacked anyone.

Weinstein was a legendary filmmaker in the 90s, when he was known as the charismatic but hard producer of ancurized films like “Shakespeare in Love” and “The King’s Speech” – undoubtedly making him the only man most because of the magnitude of the Oscar. Harvey hit not only classic films, but also cinema stars oscored in good faith, apparently out of the air.

But even at these beginnings, a sinister mythology swirls around the man who operated like a boss of the mafia – that he was a vicious tyrant and a serial crier, that he would court the filmmakers only to let their films bring together dust, that young actresses were always on his orbit in film festivals, line fishing for roles and attention.

It turned out that the truth was much darker than the darkest of these rumors.

When the New York Times and New Yorker published consecutive accounts in October 2017 of women who declared that Weinstein had harassed them, attacked or raped – followed by countless other women who presented themselves with frightening allegations – the dam broke out on what has quickly become known as #MeToo, a social movement whose cultural impact was felt miles.

The next day, Weinstein was dismissed from the company Weinstein (the second distribution company he founded with his brother Bob, after Miramax), expelled from the Academy of Arts and Cinema Sciences, Georgina Chapman, Georgina Chapman.

New York, Los Angeles and London police have opened investigations, in some cases, revisiting witnesses who had already made complaints (only to have them neglect or abandon). With a preponderance of evidence now everywhere in local newspapers, New York filed the first criminal charges in May 2018, and a jury found him guilty of two of the five crime counts in 2020.

Then in 2021, the prosecutors filed charges in California, where a Los Angeles jury condemned Weinstein out of three of the seven crime charges the following year.

Dozens of witnesses were called between the two trials, and each ground through weeks of emotionally punishing testimony of the victims, of which Jennifer Siebel Newsom, now the wife of Governor Gavin Newsom. One by one, they spoke and, in almost all cases, were emotionally decomposed while they were traveling the jurors through the dark details of the spam meetings with the imposing bulldozer and, by many accounts, the film’s magnate genitally mutilated.

Their stories followed a similar scenario: Harvey organized a professional meeting, generally located in one of his favorite luxury consequences, where he praised the woman in a bathrobe and asked for a massage. In some cases, the women said that Weinstein had found them and burst into their accommodation without notice before attacking.