Harvey Weinstein (screen shot)
Disgraced former Hollywood movie mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has been convicted yet again – for rape. This time the conviction came in a Los Angeles courtroom. Oh well, it seems Harvey Weinstein can stop hoping for a successful appeal of his previous convictions.
While acquitted on one charge, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty on Monday by a Los Angeles Jury of raping one woman in 2013 and could be sentenced to up to 24 years in jail. The jury failed to reach a verdict either way on three other charges. It took the jury of eight men and 4 women ten days of deliberations to reach just the two verdicts.
That victim – one of four – was only identified as Jane Doe #1. After Harvey Weinstein’s conviction she commented that the rape “forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013.”
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“The criminal trial was brutal and Weinstein’s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand,” she added, “but I knew I had to see this through to the end, and I did,” Jane Doe 1 added. “I hope Weinstein never sees the outside of a prison cell during his lifetime.”
This is the trial where Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the 48-year-old documentary filmmaker, actress and wife of California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, testified in open court to having herself been raped by Harvey Weinstein. After the verdict, Siebel Newsom said, “Throughout the trial, Weinstein’s lawyers used sexism, misogyny, and bullying tactics to intimidate, demean, and ridicule us survivors. The trial was a stark reminder that we as a society have work to do.”
“Harvey Weinstein will never be able to rape another woman,” she added. “He will spend the rest of his life behind bars where he belongs.”
Harvey Weinstein is currently serving a prison sentence in New York where he was convicted on February 24, 2020, on 2 of 5 counts charged, criminal sexual assault in the first degree and one count of rape in the third degree. On March 11 he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. While currently serving that sentence, Weinstein can still be charged and tried in another jurisdiction even in jail.
He is trying to appeal the sentence in New York. But now, even in the unlikely event of Harvey Weinstein winning that appeal, he could still be spending more than 20 years in a California prison.
