Insisting that Harvey Weinstein “sit here an innocent man,” defense attorney Donna Rotunno began her closing arguments in Weinstein’s rape trial today by imploring the jury of sev…
“sit here an innocent man,” defense attorney Donna Rotunno began her closing arguments in Weinstein’s rape trial today by imploring the jury of seven men and five women to use their “New York common sense” and disregard whatever “gut feelings” they may have had about Weinstein prior to this trial.
Weinstein, the 67-year-old former Miramax chief who has been publicly named by dozens of women for alleged sexual misconduct, is on trial in New York State Supreme Court in the cases of just two of those accusers: Miriam Haley, now 42, was a production assistant on Project Runway in 2006 when, she says, Weinstein held her down in a hotel room and forcibly performed oral sex on her; and Jessica Mann, 34, a former actress, model and hairstylist who claims Weinstein raped her in 2013 at the...
Likening the District Attorneys prosecuting the case against Weinstein to producers of a film, Rotunno said that “in their universe, women are not responsible for the parties they attend, the men they flirt with. In this universe they are not even responsible for sitting at their computers and sending messages to men across the country.”
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