Lawyers in Harvey Weinstein's New York rape trial finished selecting 12 jur...
- Lawyers in Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape trial finished selecting 12 jurors on Friday to decide the former Hollywood producer’s fate, as prosecutors renewed an accusation that the defense had unfairly tried to block white women from serving on the jury.
Weinstein, the 67-year-old producer of Hollywood hits such as “The English Patient” and “Shakespeare in Love”, has pleaded not guilty to assaulting two women. He faces life in prison if convicted. Lawyers seated two white female jurors on Friday after Weinstein’s defense team had exhausted their opportunity to eliminate potential jurors who did not exhibit explicit bias against the defendant or otherwise seem unfit to serve.
“It looks like their thought process is that a white woman would have more of an affinity to the victims,” said Michael Bachner, a defense lawyer who is not involved in the case. Beyond that, both sides can use “peremptory” challenges to reject jurors they believe will be unsympathetic, without providing a reason. Lawyers typically get three peremptory challenges, but in this case each side was given 20.
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