This is super fucked up. The organization promotes themselves as a safe space for young talent and invites Harvey Weinstein not once, but twice (known times), essentially promoting and facilitating business as usual from the past. They mask the locations they hold these events... This Alexandra Laliberte character needs to re-evaluate what she's doing.
is he still? I was under the impression he was in a bad spot financially with all the lawsuits and his company going belly up because of it
Yes - most of the big names in Hollywood and his financiers don't care about his behavior. They just care about the optics. TWC is obviously done - but everyone knows Latern is still utilizing him.
Lol come on guys we just need to wait for all the facts to come out before we come to a conclusion about serial rapist Harvey Weinstein.
I mean all the guy did was rape hundreds of women and engage in a massive misinformation and intimidation campaign, aiming to ruin the lives of anyone who spoke up. Such a shame he had to go through such a difficult and embarrassing few seconds there.
An ex-actress who claims Harvey Weinstein raped her told a court at his trial Friday that his genitalia were so “deformed” she actually pitied him — and that he shot his penis with an erection drug moments before the alleged attack. “The first time I saw him fully naked, I felt, I thought he was deformed and intersex,” Jessica Mann, 34, a Washington state native, told Manhattan Supreme Court jurors during Weinstein’s rape and sex assault trial. “He has extreme scarring that I didn’t know if maybe he was a burn victim. He does not have testicles and it appears like he has a vagina,” said as Weinstein bowed his head while sitting at the defense table.
“The first time I saw him fully naked, I felt, I thought he was deformed and intersex. He has extreme scarring that I didn’t know if maybe he was a burn victim. He does not have testicles and it appears like he has a vagina,”
There have been a lot of cases where the accused doesn't take the stand. If I was innocent, l would want to tell my side. It's not a good look to me.
I'd probably plead guilty rather than have the jury look at pictures of my mutilated, intersex genitalia.
I’m not surprised by the tactic but still laughing at him showing up with his clothes disheveled and using a walker for the “this guy? How could this broken down old man ever sexually assault anyone” defense
You have a constitutional right to be able to not take the stand without the jury being able to infer anything from that. They're explicitly instructed that they cannot make any inference of guilt based on whether he testifies. There's almost nothing to gain and everything to lose by testifying as a defendant.
I've probably had 15-20 defendants testify in cases I've done, only one walked and according to jury it had nothing to do with his testimony Usually it's a last resort tactic the defense has or their client isnt very smart. Unless I was accused of something and needed to sell to the jury it was self defense or something similar I would never testify. Especially if you are just getting up there to say "yea I didnt do it"
This isn't a smartass question I'm genuinely curious...what percentage of jurors do you think abide by jury instructions? I mean it's hard for the brain to completely ignore that something happened.
Disclaimer: I get my legal expertise from Law and Order I guess my surprise would be more along the lines of after a sustained objection where someone brings up something they shouldn't
It’s definitely tough to “un-ring” the bell, so judges will mistry a case if they thing they jury will inevitably be biased by it. A lot of those issues are dealt with in motions in limine before trial to avoid that. With something like the Fifth Amendment privilege, the judge will instruct from the outset. If a lawyer commented that the defendant could have testified or that the jury should read into his refusal to do so, the case would mistry and the lawyer would be sanctioned to the moon.
Almost all of defense attorneys on my cases address it in voir dire about holding it against someone exercising their rights. Now whether jurors actually so what they say, that's another story
juries do a lot of dumb things, but I have found they are pretty good (not perfect) at respecting and not holding it against a defendant who does not testify.
I used to clerk for a judge and we would talk with the jurors after the trial ended. They would ask us questions and tell us how the process was and thoughts about the case.