BREAKING: Jurors have found Harvey Weinstein guilty of of rape at a Los Angeles trial in the latest moment of #MeToo reckoning.
Weinstein will now have a California prison sentence added to the more than 20 years he has left to serve in New York. https://t.co/Q3QBTXx9FA
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 19, 2022
Previously:
- BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein Convicted of RAPE, And with Him, So are All Men in America
- Consent Theory on Trial: Weinstein Jury Appears to be Hung on Two Counts
Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of rape, yet again, exclusively on the claims of prostitutes who were parasiting off of him.
Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape and two other sexual assault counts by a Los Angeles jury on Monday, marking the second conviction of the onetime Hollywood kingmaker who became the face of #MeToo sexual abuse allegations five years ago.
The jury found Weinstein guilty of rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a foreign object involving one woman, but acquitted him of charges relating to a second alleged victim, the Los Angeles Superior Court announced.
The jury could not reach a verdict on two allegations, including rape, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who previously disclosed she was Jane Doe 4 in the trial. The jury did not reach a verdict on charges relating to one other woman.
Imagine being Gavin Newsom and laying down in bed with your wife every night and knowing she had sex with Harvey Weinstein.
You’d have to tell yourself it was rape.
But all men know it wasn’t rape. And apparently, her lies weren’t even enough to convict a jury of angry kooks.
Weinstein, 70, is already serving a 23-year prison sentence after being convicted of sexual misconduct in New York.
The former model and actress that Weinstein was convicted of raping at a Los Angeles hotel in 2013, and known in court as Jane Doe 1, issued a statement shortly after the verdict.
“Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013 and I will never get that back. The criminal trial was brutal and Weinstein’s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand, but I knew I had to see this through to the end, and I did. I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.”
Weinstein faces up to 18 years in prison on the counts for which he was convicted, but aggravating factors could increase that to 24 years. Lawyers return to court on Tuesday to deliver arguments about aggravating factors.
This is insane.
Elizabeth Fegan, Siebel Newsom’s attorney, said in a statement: “While we are heartened that the jury found Weinstein guilty on some of the counts, we are disappointed that the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on Jane Doe 4,” Fegan said.
“She will continue to fight for all women and all survivors of abuse against a system that permits the victim to be shamed and re-traumatized in the name of justice.”
In Los Angeles, Weinstein faced seven counts of rape and sexual assault from four women during encounters between 2004 and 2013.
Yes – I’m sure there was a lot of really clear evidence of stuff from 10-20 years ago!
Who is buying this bullshit???
The only way they got away with it is this: Weinstein is repulsive, and people just simply do not like him.
However, now that they’ve set this precedent, it applies to all men in America.
Heterosexual sex is now illegal.
Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench declared a mistrial on the counts where the jury could not reach a verdict, including the allegations made by Siebel Newsom.
The women had alleged during often graphic testimony that the powerful producer of “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare in Love” masturbated in front of them and groped or raped them.
He should have been on trial for making Shakespeare in Love.
That would be an easy conviction – we have evidence he did that!
Siebel Newsom and three other women offered testimony that provided the basis for the two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault that Weinstein faced.
Four additional women offered similar stories to buttress the prosecution’s arguments that Weinstein routinely abused his position as a Hollywood power player to prey on women.
No one argues that point. He never argued that point.
The point of contention is “is it rape?” and the obvious answer is no.
It wasn’t rape in the cases of dozens of other women, who all admitted to having sex with him in exchange for roles in films. Those women came out and whined that he should have given them the roles for free. However, that wasn’t what he was doing. What he was doing was trading roles in films for sex. There are a lot of women in the world, and if these women didn’t want to have sex with him for a role in a film, he would have found other women.
They made the deal. Now they say they regret it. I doubt they regret getting the opportunities he gave them though, and the cost of those opportunities was sex.
They said he promised help with securing an audition or a book deal, then arranged meetings where staff disappeared and left them alone with him.
Weinstein said all of his sexual encounters were consensual and pleaded not guilty.
Defense attorneys argued that the women willingly had sex with Weinstein because they believed he would help their careers, part of what they said was a widespread “casting couch” culture in the film industry. In two of the cases, they said the sexual contact was fabricated.
They also highlighted that some of the accusers, including Siebel Newsom, kept in contact with Weinstein, which they argued did not make sense if he had attacked them.
I’m going to go through and pull all the details of this latest crucifixion. I didn’t follow this case like I followed the first one, because I already knew he’d be convicted. The precedent was set for him and every other man in America with the New York trial.
I will probably do some Twitter threads on this.
https://twitter.com/WorldWarWang/status/1605286916785479680
There are so many problems, it’s hard to even come up with a full list, but here are the basics:
- There is no way to prove a rape that happened a decade ago, so the only thing the court has to go on is “believe all women.” In a frightening and bizarre transformation of the American legal system, prosecutors can now put women in front of a jury to cry and see if the jury believes her. It cannot be stated how drastically this veers from the entire history of the Western legal system and in fact, every legal system on earth.
- He has proof that these women voluntarily had sex with him. In the New York case, one of the women claimed she had been having sex with him already, then he raped her, then she dated him for a year after that. What these feminist Jew lawyers did was get her to go through her entire sexual history with this man and dial in to one sex meeting – over the course of 4+ years of sex meetings – that seemed especially uncomfortable. With all the women, Harvey has all this evidence that they kept in contact and said nice things about him and sent him nice messages after they claim they were raped.
- Even if they could prove it, what they describe is not “rape,” because he did not use any force. They don’t even claim he used force. In the New York case, it was “third degree rape,” which is rape with no force. No one even knows what that is.
I know people don’t like Harvey Weinstein. I don’t like him either. But that is exactly the point. They needed someone that everyone hates to be able to push through a totally new precedent on sex in America.
Since Harvey’s first trial, the sex prosecutions have gotten completely out of control. Men all over America are being hit with fake rape charges. They have no defense. Under this precedent, it is literally impossible to prove you didn’t rape a woman, because the court does not require any evidence.
Related: A Woman is Finally Raped for Real!