Weinstein defense can use governor’s wife’s email at trial
FILE - Mel Gibson arrives at the 89th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 6, 2017. Gibson can testify at the rape and sexual assault trial of Harvey Weinstein about one of Weinstein's accusers, whose story Gibson learned part of prior to 2015, a judge ruled Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. LOS ANGELES — — Mel Gibson can testify about what he learned from one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, a judge ruled Friday in the rape and sexual assault trial of the former movie mogul.
Weinstein’s attorneys argued against allowing Gibson to testify, saying that what he learned from the woman while getting a massage from her does not constitute a “fresh complaint” by the woman under the law by which Gibson would take the stand. A “fresh complaint” under California law allows the introduction of evidence of sexual assault or another crime if the victim reported it to someone else voluntarily and relatively promptly after it happened.
Lench said a wider discussion of Gibson’s racism was not relevant to the trial, but she would allow questioning of whether he had a personal bias and animus toward Weinstein. “Sorry, my client would know better than I would,” Werksman said. “But it was an award-winning movie.”
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