Jurors in the sex assault trial of former film producer Harvey Weinstein will try again Monday to reach a verdict after already deliberating for some 24 hours over six previous sessions.
will try again Monday to reach a verdict after already deliberating for some 24 hours over six previous sessions.
During the trial, jurors also heard from four other women who were allegedly sexually assaulted by Weinstein, but are not listed as charged victims in the case.Weinstein -- whom Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez had earlier called a "titan of the film industry" -- engaged in "despicable behavior" and made sure that the alleged victims knew he "could destroy them," the prosecutor said Thursday in her closing.
Weinstein's attorney contended that two of the alleged attacks involving Jane Doe #1 and Jane Doe #2 "simply never happened" and that they were "fictionalized" accounts of events that never occurred. He said Weinstein's relationships with the other two alleged victims, including the governor's wife, were "100% consensual" and amounted to "transactional relationships.
As she wrapped up her closing argument, the prosecutor told jurors, "It is time for the defendant's reign of terror to end ... It is time for the kingmaker to be brought to justice." Two of the charges against Weinstein -- forcible rape and forcible oral copulation -- stem from the alleged attack on Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker, at his suite at The Peninsula Beverly Hills in September 2005.
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