The infamous sexual predator returns to the courtroom

He used to be Harvey Weinstein one of the biggest film producers, along with brother Bob was founded in the late 1970s by the Miramax film studio. This one became famous as a blacksmith’s successful independent films as it was Sex, lies and videoraks (Sex, Lies, and VideoTape1989) and Play tears (The Crying Game1992). The studio sold the Walt Disney Company to the giant in 1993, but remained behind the handlebars for more than a decade. The most famous films in Harvey Weinstein are probably Shund (Pulp Fiction1994) and Shakespeare in love (Shakespeare and Love1998), for which he received an Oscar for Best Film.

In 2017, the largest catch was #metoo movement. We have accused Weinstein more than 80 in one way or another, in one way or another, have been sexually harassed, attacked or raped by Weinstein. Women, including movie celebrities Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ashley Judd. He was arrested and sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2020 in New York in New York. He then received 16 years of punishment for sexual attacks in California. The producer did not claim that he would have nothing to do with (many) women, and his defense was based on claiming that all relationships were agreed. It seemed that today, 73-year-old Weinstein, a prototype of a sexual predator, would no longer taste freedom.

More to his favor, things turned last April, when the New York Active Court set aside the first judgment, as it was allegedly murmuring mistakes in the proceedings. The biggest were that the court left to testify to women, and for allegations of whom weinstein did not judge after several postponements at the time, the trial with the selection of the jury will finally start on Tuesday and is expected to take six weeks.

Weinstein, now with about 10,000 other prisoners, imprisoned in the infamous New York prison Rikers Island on an island in East River, asked in January to be judged as soon as possible. Since he is supposed to have more serious illness, including sugar and one of the forms of leukemia, he was afraid that he would not wait for spring in the « hell hole », as Rikers Iceland called. Last year, New York sued for negligence because they did not want to provide him with appropriate treatment for his diseases.

This time weinstein will be tried for a sexual assault, not a producer assistant Mimi haley In 2006, the rape of the actress Jessice Mann In 2013, and another new allegation of sexual assault in 2006 at a hotel in Manhattan, New York. The defendant accuses the prosecution of having this new case « in stock » for Prime if they needed something fresh against him.

It is obvious that Weinstein and his lawyers bet that because of the #Metoo critic, the #Metoo has gone away and that the court will more leniently look at his sins than the tribunal five years ago. So Weinstain mentioned that he hoped the jury would have a « fresh look » on matters, one of his lawyers Arthur Aidala But he said that at the first trial before the court, protesters shouted « scues, Harvey, rapist … I think the atmosphere has since generally calmed down. »

Last but not least, the presidential elections are indicated by the atmosphere in the United States today than it was then. In 2020 they are Donald Trumpalso the infamous alleged sexual predator himself, lost smoothly, and last year got smoothly.