Harvey Weinstein’s Last Stand

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Joe Rogan Was Eating An Elk Steak While Watching The FIRST Installment of Candace Owens’ Latest Project Aiming to Exnerate Harvey Weinstein WHEN HEN HE CAME TO AA REALIZATION

“I Can’t Belide i’m on Harvey Weinstein’s Side,“ He Said on a March 22 Podcast. “I Thought HE WAS GUILTY OF LIKE HEINUS CRIMES AND THEN YOU LISTEN, AND YOU’RE YOU’RE LIKE ‘WAIT, WHAT? WHAT IS GOING ON?’” ”

The episode nodded to seminal moments in the #metoo era since weinstein’s sex crimes in 2020 that have given Critics Runway to argue that the movement Went Far. Johnny Defamation Victory Over Amber Heard. Danny Masterson’s Mistrial on Rape Charges (He Was Later Convicted). The Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni Saga.

Rogan’s takeaway? “If this happned in the 80s, it probably would have been thrown Out,“ He Said of ProseCutors’ Case Against Weinstein. “But in the #Metoo Movement, It Was A Hot Witch Hunt.” He and owens are conducting a growing chorus of skepicism around not only weinstein’s guilt but but also acusations Between Forced and Consual Sex – A Dynamic that Some Experts Say Is Too Messy to Secure Convices.

Artthur Aidala, Weinstein’s Lawyer, Is Betting that the climate around #metoo Will Play in his client’s Favor this Time Around, or at the very least, not against HIM. “People realizing that Phrase ‘Believ Women’ is and Anti-american and Anti -nds-of-Justice Idiotic Statement,” He Says. “We Shouldn’t Believ EveryBody. We Should Determine Given Our Common Sense Wheether Telling The Truth.”

On april 22, weinstein is slated to be wheeled into the 13th floor of the manhattan Criminal Courts Building from Predator Who Wiedded His Power in the Entertainment Industry to Serial Abuse Women in His Orbit. He’s Been Charged Under Two Indictments for Three Sex Cries Against Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann and An Accuser Whose Identity Has Yet to Be Disclosed To The PubkLica Filings.

“In this Case, Justice Has Been Delayed,” Said Lindsay Goldbrum, An Attorney for The Acuser, On April 15 Outside the Courthouse Ahead of Jury Selection. “AS she have told me her experience and again told the da her experiences One Thing Has Been Crystal Clear: that this was was not consensual. This was was sexual assault.”

For his Latest Trial, Weinstein Has Assembled the Who’s Who of Criminal Defense Lawyers Highly-Regarded in Their Special Special Areas of Expertise. Defending Weinstein Means Making Your Case to The Press As Much As It Does A Jury. And aidala, whose clients have incledded rudy giuliani, roger ailes and lawrence taylor, is someting of a specialist in headling-grabbing media, with atolas. Hour, ”to spread his gospel. Has Deep Ties to the Entertainment Industry As the Last Dean of the Friars Club, A Stomping Gund for Manhattan’s Showbiz Elite, Before It Closed Last Year, and Was CBS Exec Was Acused of Sexual Misconduct. Alan Dershowitz, The Harvard Law School Professor Who Made His Name Taking on Unpopular Cause and Clients As A Criminal Defense Lawyer Decades Ago, Has Called Aidala.

Sitting Next to HIM WILL BE MICHAHAEL CIBELLA, A Seasoned Trial Attorney Known for His Aubility to Point Out Inconscistencies in Witness TESTIMONY to A JURY. Expect HIM to be Aggressive on Cross-Examination, Which Will Be Especialy Important in What’s Become a He-Said, They-Said Case. And Rounding Out Weinstein’s Trial Team Is Jennifer Bonjean, A Combative Lawyer Who Led The Effort to Overturn Bill Cosby’s Sexual Assault Conviation and was kelly r. Raniere. She’s Played The Role of Overall Trial Strategist for the Defense.

They Face Off Against Nicole Blumberg, Shannon Lucey and Matthew Colangelo, A Former High-Ranking Justice Department Department Official Who Spearheaded The Hush Money Case of Agall. Unlike The First Trial, WHICH WAS HANDLED by Homicide ProseCutors, This One is Led by the Newly-Formed Special Victims Division.

The Trial is Expert to Last Four to Six Weeks. IT WILL REVOLVE AROUND ALlegations from Haley, A Former Production Assistant On Project Runway WHO ALLEGES THAT WEinstein Forced Oral Sex On Her at His Tribeca Apartment in 2006, Mann, An Ex-Asspiring Actress Who Alleges that Sheo Was Raped at A Midtown Manhattan Hotel in Who Alleges Weinstein Forced Oral Sex Her at A Manhattan Hotel in 2006. Unlike The FIRST TRIAL, THEIR ACCUSSIONS WILL NOT BE FORTIFIED BY TESTIMONY FROM TREMEN WEMEN WEMEN. Against Weinstein But Claimed they Were Assaulted by Him. By proseCutors’ Thinking, This Evidence Was Critical To Proving that Weinstein Knew that His Acusers Wuldnn’t Consent to Having Sex with Him As Mherely a Quid Pro. Resort to the USE of Force.

The Introduction of Testimony from the Women – Known As “Molineux Witnesses” – Was The Basis of New York’s Highest Court Last Year Overurning Weinstein’s 2020 Referendum on the shortcomings of the #metoo movement. A seven-judge panel of the State Courts of Appeals, in a 4-3 Decision that Included a Sharpyly-Horded Dissent, Found that the “Trial Court erroneously admitted testimony of unkh. Amounted to an “abuse of judicial discretion” that unfairly biased the jury against weinstein. In the first trial, The Manhattan Distritney’s Office Looked to Admit Such Evidence Mainly Because Weinstein’s Acusers Had Also Had Consual Sex With Him.

“I can Say i was was shocked,” Says Deborah Tuerkheimer, A Former Manhattan ProseCutor Who Is Now A law Professor at Northwestern, of The Overturn of Weinstein.

Outside of Court, There’s Little Doubt that Weinstein Improperly Levered His Power in Hollywood to Manipulate Women Into Sex. Nearly 100 Individuals Have Acused HIM OF ABUUSE. The Volume of Evidence is Staggering, with Power Players Across The Industry Corroboration Access of Sexual Misconduct. At Same Time, Weinstein’s Alleged Cries Against MOST OF Those Women Cannot Serve as The Foundation of An IndicaTment Against the One-Time KingMaker. The Majority Involved Allegations of Civil Sexual Harassment Racher than Assault or Rape. OCCURRED IN CALIFORNIA, WHERE The Los Angles Distritney’s Office Wound Later Bring A Case, and the Rest Fell Beyond the Window to Bring Charges. The Corus of Weinstein’s Condemnation Belied the Small Group of Women Whose Allegations Could Actual Stand at the Center of A Trial.

SO IN 2018, WITH FEDERAL PROSECUTORS EYEING A PETENTIAL CASE AND Under Pressure by The Governor for Not Pursuing Charges Years Earlier, The Manhattan District Atadorney Overturning of Weinstein’s Sex Cries. Without TESTIMONY FROM The THREE ADDITIONAL WOMEN WHOSE ACCUSIONS DIDNN’T LEAD TO Charges, Halim Dhanidina, A Former ProseCutor Who Served a Nine-Yin-year Stint AS AS AS There’s A Steeper Hill To Climb to Secure A Council this Time Around. “IT’ll HAVE A SIGNFICANT IMPACT,“ HE SAYS. “The Prosecution’s Burden Is Higher. The Charges they Filed Must Now Be Able to Stand Alone.”

At the Heart of Weinstein’s Defense: The Acusers Had Consensual and Onthen Transactional Sex with Him to Advance Their Careers. This will be the Toughest Dynamic The Jury Will Be Ace to Navigate. Defense Lawyers Will Likely Point to Haley and Weinstein Having Sex Two Weeks After She Was Assaulted by Him, Signing One of Her Email to Him With. She said she did so because she “Just Put it in a box and pretended like it didn’t happen,” Haley Testified During the First Trial.

On Cross-Examination Six Years Ago, Damon Cheronis, One of Weinstein’s Former Lawyers, Characterized Haley As Enjoying Her Sexual Encounter with HITH WELETH HEELSTEINTHENTEin. He Showed the Jury Hearts She Drew on Her Calendar in the Subsequent Days.

“YOU SAID YOU DRAW Hearts to Sort of Reflect Your Mood. Is that Reflective of your Mood on July the 27th, 28th and 29th?” Choronis Asked.

“IT May Have Been,“ Haley Replied.

Another Line of Argument Defense Lawyers Are Expectioned to Draw from Include Mann Acknowledge that Her Three-Year Relationship with Weinstein Included Consensual Sex. “You don’t him love him in 2016 and you are tired of being a booty Call in 2017 and Call HIM A PODATOR IN 2020,“ CHERONIS SAID, CITING MESSAGES SE SENT HIM AFTER The Alleged Rape.

Mann Testified That She Was Often Manipulated Into Sex by Weinstein, Who Exerted ImMense Control Over Her Career. Dawn Hughes, An Expert Witness on the Psychological and Traumatic Effects of Rape, Will Testify for the Prosecution to, In Part, Explain Someamics That Shows Way Mann and Haley DID.

“IT’s HARD FOR JURIES TO WRAP Their Heads AROUND WHY APPEED TO HAVE, IN THE AFTERMOTH OF THE ASSAULTS Attorney and Former Lawyer for the New York County District Attorney’s Office. “IT’s A HARD CASE FOR PROSECUTORS. They EVEN Get Nervouse about Bringing Those Types of Cases.”

NotBly, Weinstein Has Already Served His Prison Term for the Overturned Conviction Stemming from Mann’s Rape Charge. He will be credited for that time if the jury consuicts again, meance that it will not have any Impact on his sentent. For the most part, his lawyers will look to undermine Charges Relating to Haley and the Third Accuser.

Expect CredIbility to Play a vital part in the outcome of the trial, Even Moreso Than in Other Cases. This was the Deciding Factor in Depp’s Lopsded Defamation Win in 2022 Against Heard on Allegations that He Was Dent The Washington Post. Of the $ 15 Million that the Jury Awarded Dep, $ 5 Million Was in Punctive Damages Aimed to Punish Heard for Especialya Reprehensible Conduct. The VERDICT INDICATED THAT JURORS WERE RELUCTANT TO BELIEVE TESTIMONY FROM HEARD, WHO BROKE DOWN IN TEARS ON THE WITNESS STANP

And it wasn’t unil the court allwed the prosecution of free rein to tell jurors that masterson drugged his victims – Directly Clashing with his position of the a theater. r Rape. Even with that Change from the Initial Trial, WHICH ENDED IN A HUNG JURY, JURORS SPLIT ON A Charge Relating to Masterson’s Former Longtime Girlfriend.

Aidala Figures the Tables May have Turned this time around. He Likes His Chances. #Metoo has been «uncovered as not being this perfect movement it was alleged to have been,” he clams. “HARVY WAS PINNED AS The poster Boy for It.”

That may not change, but he will not have to spend the rest of his life at rikers island if he wins this trial. THEN All Eyes Will Turn to California.