Prosecutors in the Harvey Weinstein rape trial on Tuesday slammed an op-ed piece written for Newsweek by the ex-mogul’s defense attorney Donna Rotunno, calling the article an attempt at ̶…
Rotunno’s article, published yesterday, was written as a direct plea to the jury to “do what they know is right” and find Weinstein not guilty based on evidence and testimony presented in the monthlong trial.asked New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke this morning to sanction Rotunno’s behavior by including an instruction to the jury about the incident and also by remanding Weinstein to custody for his possible involvement.
“If this is the conduct that is allowed to persist in this courthouse, Judge, then we are all lost,” Illuzzi said. Rotunno added that “every day” the prosecutors called Weinstein a “predator” and a rapist,” and “that’s not true.”
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