“Regret is not the same thing as rape, and it’s important we make that distinction in this courtroom,” said Harvey Weinstein’s defense attorney Alan Jackson of Jennifer Siebel Newsom today in his c…
today in his closing argument in the much-accused producer’s sex crime trial.
Calling Weinstein’s alleged 2005 assault of Newsom in Beverly Hills’ Peninsula Hotel “consensual, transactional sex” between an ambitious filmmaker/actress and a powerful producer, Jackson further mocked Newsom AKA Jane Doe #4 in language that seemed to intentionally alienate any notion of empathy. “Jane Doe #4 cannot square in her mind the idea that she’s a successful, well educated, well-bred refined woman who had consensual sex with Harvey Weinstein in exchange for opportunity and access.
dropped its detailed expose on the Oscar winner in late 2017, Newsom, who did not marry then San Francisco mayoruntil 2008, has always maintained that she was attacked against her will by the producer 17 years ago.
Tearing more into Newsom’s two days on the stand, Jackson in his closing argument went on to tell the courtroom: “It was almost like it was on cue, it was almost like it was rehearsed. Just because she cried the hardest or yelled the loudest, it does not change any of the facts.” Facing a maximum of 60 years to life plus five if found guilty by the jury Weinstein has been charged with two counts of rape and five counts of sexual assault in incidents in L.A. County from 2004 to 2013. Originally the 70-year-old and addled producer was looking at 11
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