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9 jurors picked as Weinstein's lawyers seek to move him from jail to hospital during #MeToo retrial
Nine jurors were picked Wednesday on the second day of jury selection in Harvey Weinstein's #MeToo rape retrial.
At the same time, the disgraced movie mogul's lawyers asked a judge to allow him to spend his nights at a New York City hospital instead of jail for the duration of the trial, citing his many health issues including cancer and problems walking that require the use of a wheelchair to get in and out of court. He leaned back in his wheelchair, peering at prospective jurors as they answered questions that touched on everything from their impressions of #MeToo — a movement spawned by scores of allegations in 2017 against the ex-studio boss — to what they like to do in their spare time. In seeking to relocate Weinstein for the trial, his lawyers argued that his stay at the city's notorious Rikers Island jail complex is exacerbating his health issues and that he'd be better off in the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.
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