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Another Harvey Weinstein Rape Retrial Could Start This Fall, Judge Says; Current Case Ends In Mistrial As Jury Foreman Won’t Return To Deliberations
Jurors in the rape retrial of Harvey Weinstein in Manhattan have refused to returned to deliberation & the judge has declared a mistrial for the once-powerful producer
Last week, defense lawyer and frequent CNN guest Arthur Aidala told the jury in his closing argument that accusers Jessica Mann, Miriam Haley and Kaja Sokola are “all women with broken dreams … they’re all women who wanted to cut the line.” Portraying the trio of accusers as having engaged in consensual sex with Weinstein, Aidala, who represented Steve Bannon in the MAGA warlord’s fundraising fraud case, attempted to make his client the real victim. The lawyer pointed the finger at Mann, former Project Runway production assistant Haley and Polish model Sokola for using “their youth, their beauty, their charm, their charisma to get stuff” from Weinstein. In the prosecution’s closing argument, with her boss Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg looking on in the courtroom, Assistant DA Nicole Blumberg offered a perspective on Weinstein’s decades of power in Hollywood, making and breaking careers.
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