Jurors in Harvey Weinstein rape and sexual assault trial reach a verdict - NBC News

Jurors successful the Harvey Weinstein rape and intersexual battle proceedings successful Los Angeles reached a verdict connected Monday, astir 3 years aft the disgraced movie mogul was convicted astatine a watershed enactment crimes proceedings successful New York City.

Weinstein, 70, pleaded not blameworthy successful some trials and denies each allegations of nonconsensual sex. He is serving a 23-year situation condemnation successful New York, wherever helium was found blameworthy successful February 2020 of 2 felonies — third-degree rape and transgression intersexual enactment successful the archetypal degree.

In some trials, Weinstein waived his right to instrumentality the witnesser stand.

The verdict followed weeks of affectional and sometimes excruciatingly graphic grounds from 44 witnesses for the prosecution, including Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker who is joined to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Siebel Newsom broke down successful tears connected the witnesser basal arsenic she described the nighttime Weinstein allegedly raped her successful a Beverly Hills edifice suite.

“I’m trembling, I’m similar a rock, I’m frigid,” she testified done sobs. “This is my worst nightmare.”

The proceedings took connected higher stakes aft the New York State Court of Appeals agreed successful August to let Weinstein to entreaty his 2020  conviction.

In opening arguments, Los Angeles prosecutors portrayed Weinstein arsenic a relentless intersexual predator who lorded his presumption arsenic “the astir almighty antheral successful Hollywood” implicit the women helium abused.

Weinstein lawyer Mark Werksman countered that the accusers engaged successful consensual and “transactional” intersexual behaviour with his client, accusing them of reframing their experiences arsenic maltreatment successful the aftermath of the #MeToo movement.

The defence called six radical to attest during the trial.

In the 1990s and the 2000s, Weinstein and his younger brother, Bob, were titans of the movie business, producing seminal films similar “Pulp Fiction” and distributing Oscar-winning dramas specified arsenic “Shakespeare successful Love” and “The King’s Speech.”

Weinstein is connected proceedings 5 years aft The New York Times and The New Yorker archetypal published explosive investigations into allegations of a signifier of intersexual misconduct.

The stories inspired a wider reckoning with abuses of powerfulness successful amusement and other high-profile industries that rapidly became known arsenic the #MeToo movement.