Judge warns Weinstein defense lawyer not to talk to media after op-ed on trial

NEW YORK - The judge in the Harvey Weinstein rape case on Tuesday warned his lead defense lawyer that she must not talk to the press until the jury has reached a verdict, two days after the attorney wrote an opinion piece in Newsweek magazine about the case.

Rotunno told Burke that the opinion piece, published on Saturday and titled “Jurors in my client Harvey Weinstein’s case must look past the headlines,” was not intended to address the jury directly. Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and raping Jessica Mann, a onetime aspiring actress, in 2013.

Last week, jurors heard closing arguments from lawyers on both sides. Defense attorney Rotunno argued that the encounters had been consensual, pointing to friendly communications from the women to Weinstein after they were allegedly assaulted. She assailed the credibility of the accusers and urged the jury to put aside their emotions and use common sense in evaluating the evidence.

Haleyi testified during the trial that Weinstein forced oral sex on her in his home in 2006. Haleyi said Weinstein “lunged” at her, backed her into a bedroom and forcibly performed oral sex on her, yanking out her tampon.Mann testified that Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel room early in what she called an “extremely degrading” relationship with him.

send him to hades

oh lord... 🙏

we're in the season of Presidential pardons, don't say I didn't tell you if this dude got pardoned. Congratulations once again America, for harboring criminals officially.

If he had a personal connection to Bill Clinton, this could all be over with quite quickly.

hopefully, his life sentence is very short and his cellmate has some fun with him on night 1.

Trump's handing out pardons to rich white guys so even if he's found guilty Harvey's probably not going to serve a day.

I see he’s borrowed the magic get out of jail Zimmer frame beloved by many of his kind

Trump will pardon

No worries! If he is charged, Trump will pardon him.

Hey Trump is pardoning... there’s hope

Lockhimup

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