Prosecution rests case at Harvey Weinstein sex assault trial in LA
Harvey Weinstein Image: PA Images PROSECUTORS IN LOS Angeles have rested their case in the trial of Harvey Weinstein, who they allege raped two women and sexually assaulted two others.
The fourth, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker who was an actor at the time of her alleged rape and is now married to California Governor Gavin Newsom, provided the most dramatic moments at the trial so far with her emotional testimony. “We are nearing the end of this case if you haven’t already picked up on that fact,” Lench told the jurors, who will get Thanksgiving week off and return for testimony by defence witnesses on 28 November.
Weinstein spokesman Juda Engelmayer said in response to the dropped charges that “this witness could have felt uneasy about being scrutinised knowing the truth of the matter”.Nor did prosecutors explain why Mel Gibson was missing. They never called the actor, director and one of the trial’s most anticipated witnesses to the stand.
Jackson said the allegations that in 2013 Weinstein raped and sexually assaulted an Italian model known at the trial as Jane Doe #1 were especially unfounded, arguing that there is no convincing evidence that “the interlude occurred at all”.
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