It’s no longer business as usual in the United States,' said Gloria Allred, the attorney who represented three of Weinstein's accusers.
The Harvey Weinstein sex-crimes split verdict – guilty of rape and sexual assault, not guilty of the most serious predatory charges – raises immediate questions about what effect it will have on the #MeToo movement, on Hollywood and the entertainment industry in particular, and on the prosecution of sex crimes in general across the United States.
"Abusers everywhere and the powerful forces that protect them should be on notice: There’s no going back,” declared Tina Tchen, president and CEO of the Time's Up Foundation, formed in Hollywood in the wake of Weinstein's fall from his commanding perch as a movie mogul. When the Los Angeles County trial opens, it will mesmerize Hollywood, Fuller predicted."They will be following it extremely closely, because it’s right in their backyards. If there’s another conviction, it’s more confirmation that the world has changed."
Day to day, she said, it means women and bystanders are more likely to speak up. Also, she said, a lot of people in the industry knew about Harvey Weinstein and were in a position to do something but didn’t. Still, he said, his phone has been"blowing up" with calls from people who knew or worked with Weinstein."There’s almost no aspect of this industry he hasn’t been part of. People are shocked to see this. I don’t think anybody really believed it would happen. This is somebody who just several years ago was running the film business."
Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Lara Yeretsian said the acquittal on the two most serious charges is"huge," because he can't be retried on those. The Weinstein verdict suggests it will no longer be"acceptable in courts for anyone to argue that women who were victimized by sexual predators brought it on themselves because they wanted to advance in their careers," said Debra Katz, a Los Angeles lawyer who specializes in sexual harassment cases and was in the courtroom for the verdict.
"We hope that survivors everywhere will feel encouraged to come forward knowing that juries — and society — will believe them,” said Scott Berkowitz, president and founder of the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network , the nation's leading anti-sexual violence organization. “One of the big-picture lessons from the Weinstein case is that no matter how challenging these sexual offense cases may be, as long as there are credible witnesses whose stories need to be told, prosecutors should present the cases to a grand jury for review and indictment,” said Lisa Linsky, a defense attorney and former New York prosecutor who handled sex-crimes cases.
Stefano says the significance of the verdict is that the accusers were believed despite the lack of police testimony and the lack of physical and forensic evidence, and despite the passage of time. In a he-said-they-said case,"It was simply their testimony. And that was enough. And that’s never been enough before," Stefano told USA TODAY."I absolutely believe this verdict will encourage women to come forward. Seeing other women being believed gives other victims hope.
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