Jury for Harvey Weinstein trial in L.A. ends week of deliberations without verdict – National | 24CA News
Jurors on the Los Angeles rape and sexual misconduct trial of Harvey Weinstein have been deliberating for every week with out reaching a verdict.
The jury of eight males and 4 ladies went dwelling Friday afternoon and can return to renew deliberations on Monday morning.
They should determine on two counts of rape and 5 different sexual assault counts towards the 70-year-old former film magnate.
The jurors have had no questions for the courtroom that may present perception into the standing of their work.
They bought the case on the finish of closing arguments on Dec. 2. They have been deliberating for five 1/2 days, or about 24 hours complete.
The solely situation raised, and the one time the attorneys have returned to the courtroom in every week, got here Friday morning when one of many 5 alternate jurors requested if he may very well be excused due to journey plans. Weinstein’s legal professionals objected, and the choose rejected the request.
Weinstein nonetheless has greater than 20 years left on his sentence in New York after a rape and sexual assault conviction there that’s beneath enchantment.
In California, he might get 60 years to life in jail if he’s convicted on all counts involving all 4 ladies he’s charged with assaulting.
All 4 testified in the course of the trial, together with 4 different accusers who testified for prosecutors making an attempt to point out a propensity for such acts by Weinstein.
Prosecutors urged jurors to finish the “reign of terror” of a person they referred to as a “degenerate rapist.”
Weinstein’s legal professionals argued that two of the ladies’s accusations are completely fabricated and two others reframed consensual sexual encounters as assault years later, after the #MeToo motion made Weinstein a goal.
He has pleaded not responsible and denied partaking in any non-consensual intercourse.
