Harvey Weinstein’s Courtroom Chair Moved So He Can’t Keep ‘Staring’ at the Jury - Yahoo Entertainment

The space of Harvey Weinstein’s spot astatine the defence array became an contented astatine his Los Angeles-based rape proceedings Wednesday, arsenic the disgraced mogul had seemingly been improperly positioned truthful that helium could “stare” astatine the jury.

Before Jane Doe 1 was brought successful for a morning cross-examination session, lawyers struck up a treatment astir Weinstein’s seating position. For the archetypal 2 days of testimony, helium had been allowed to beryllium alongside the array successful a mode that helium could regard straight astatine the assemblage container – and often did.

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A Sheriff’s lawman noticed what was going on, and sheriff’s section argumentation is not to let defendants to look straight astatine the jury. Weinstein lawyer Mark Werksman asked the justice to let Weinstein to enactment wherever helium was, saying Weinstein has trouble with his wheelchair and there’s nary much country astatine the defence table.

He was denied.

Weinstein moved backmost alongside his lawyer – past pushed his seat backmost and continued to look astatine the jury.

Click here for continuing sum of Wednesday’s hearing.