Prosecutor Nicole Bloomberg, in her final pleading with the trial of former film producer Harvey Weinstein, tried to persuade the jury to be convicted of rape and sexual assault on three women, saying in a clear voice, “We are here because he raped three women. For this reason we are here!”.
For his part, Winstein’s lawyer, during his closing argument, also described the plaintiffs as “women with shattered dreams” to urge the jury to absolve his client. The closing pleading of the Public Prosecutor Bloomberg will be resumed today, Wednesday. Judge Cortis Farper is then assumed that the jury who will withdraw to circulate in the ruling.
Weinstein -who formed the testimonies of women against him in 2017 the launching spark of the “Mi To” movement in the world -returned to the dock on April 15 in New York to re -trial on two sexually assaulting charges in 2006 for production assistance Mimi Haley, and the rape of actress Jessica Man in 2013. And he previously convicted of these two charges in 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but the sentence is sentenced In the past year, it was canceled for procedural reasons.
The trial also covered a new charge of sexually assaulting in 2006 at a Manhattan hotel on Kaya Sokola, who was 19 years old at the time of the facts.
The three women have made lengthy certificates of the jury. “The matter is definitely not fun,” the prosecutor said, but “they want to hold the accused accountable for his actions.”
Weinstein, imprisoned for his conviction for another sexual crime in California, attended a wheelchair. Silence was required throughout the trial.
It is concerned with the exploitation of girls
“If there is the slightest doubt about the case, you should give up all this,” said lawyer Arthur Adela, and the 73 -year -old Einstein.
As about 20 years have passed since the oldest facts, Idala sought to undermine the credibility of the claimants. He believed that the goal is not to prove that sexual relations with these three women were mutual consent, and he urged jurors not to confuse “immorality” and “criminality”.
Idala considered that the prosecution is based on fabricated testimonies of “women whose dreams were destroyed” to condemn the original comet of the Mi -To movement “again.
Using metaphors, the lawyer has repeatedly sought to win the sympathy of the jury by jokes. Sometimes the victims were represented by gesture to highlight the contradictions, one of which was a child whose lies were exposed.
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Idala stressed the continued communication with Weinstein after the violence he was accused of, a claim that the prosecution did not deny and indicated that they were not wanting to destroy their career. She also admitted that they were afraid of his lack of dealing with them and he was the founder of the “Miramax” studios.
“They knew that they had to stay next to him” and preferred to “burial their shock.”
During the trial, the three prosecutions insisted that their relations with Harvey Weinstein were not mutual.
In the year 2020, when the first Leynestine trial was held in New York, almost daily demonstrations were held against sexual violence before the court.
But this time, the sessions were held under less media attention, and coincided with the trial of the singer. Didi, who represents a federal court close to sex trafficking.