Harvey Weinstein Trial: Guilty On 2 Counts, Not Guilty Of More Serious Charges
Criminal sexual act carries a maximum of 25 years, and rape in the third degree carries a maximum of four years.
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Criminal sexual act carries a maximum of 25 years, and rape in the third degree carries a maximum of four years.
The Weinstein case propelled the issue of sexual assault and the #MeToo movement into the national spotlight.
Jane Manning, director of the Women's Equal Justice Project, talks with CBSN New York's Dana Tyler on efforts to help survivors of sexual assault navigate the criminal justice system.
Cheryl Bader teaches criminal law at Fordham University School of Law and has been following the Weinstein case from the beginning. Bader is also a former assistant U.S. attorney.
Jurors sent a note asking if they could be deadlocked on two counts of predatory sexual assault if they're unanimous on the other three lesser charges.
The 67-year-old is charged with raping Jessica Mann inside a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and forcing a sex act on Mimi Haley in 2006.
The 67-year-old is charged with raping Jessica Mann inside a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and forcing a sex act on Mimi Haley in 2006.
This morning, the jurors – seven men and five women – asked the judge again for emails from Weinstein relating to one accuser.
As CBS2's Alice Gainer reports, the case was in the hands of the jurors by 11:29 a.m. Tuesday.
Weinstein has been found guilty on two of five counts involving accusers Jessica Mann and Mimi Haley in Manhattan.
The fate of Harvey Weinstein rests with a jury of seven men and five women. They'll begin deliberating today after weeks of graphic testimony.
Seven men and five women will begin deliberating Tuesday after weeks of graphic testimony in his rape and sex assault trial.
Assistant District Attorney Joan Iluzzi painted the picture of a wealthy and powerful man in Hollywood, a man powerful enough to get presidents on the phone, who preyed on women.
Harvey Weinstein's lead attorney Donna Rotunno, from Chicago, dove right in urging jurors to "use your New York City common sense, arguing "the DA has failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt."
A woman who claimed Harvey Weinstein raped her took the stand for a third day in his sex assault trial.
The woman who is accusing the former movie mogul is facing defense cross-examination on Monday.
The fallen movie mogul was described as having a "Jekyll and Hyde" personality, poor personal hygiene - smelling like human waste - and didn't want to hear the word no. She was 27 at the time, and he was about to turn 61.
The former Hollywood producer left his New York City rape trial when a reporter asked him why he hired Black Cube, a firm founded by former intelligence analysts from the Israel Defense Forces.
Weinstein, 67, is charged with forcibly performing oral sex on the former production assistant and raping another woman, an aspiring actress, in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013.
Despite objection from Weinstein's lawyer, Judge James Burke allowed Perez to testify in court.
Sciorra is the first alleged victim to face Weinstein in court, but he isn't charged over this allegation.
Dozens of women have accused of the disgraced movie producer of sexual misconduct, but his trial will focus on just two allegations.
Harvey Weinstein's lawyers want to use intimate emails from his accusers to try to convince jurors in his rape trial that any contact was consensual
A jury of seven men and five women was selected Friday for Harvey Weinstein's rape trial after an arduous, two-week process in which scores of people were dismissed because they had already made up their minds about the disgraced Hollywood mogul.
Jury selection is scheduled to start this week in New York City in a case involving allegations that Weinstein raped one woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and performed a forcible sex act on a different woman in 2006.
