‘Mr Weinstein really never had a fair shake from day one,’ said defense attorney Donna Rotunno after former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison
NEW YORK - Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced on Wednesday to 23 years in prison for sexual assault and rape after giving a rambling court statement sympathizing with men accused of sexual misconduct during the #MeToo era.
“I feel remorse for all of the men who are going through this fight,” Weinstein, 67, told the court before he was sentenced, sounding unrepentant. Weinstein said he was worried about the “thousands of men who are losing due process” during the #MeToo movement just as people in the past had their careers destroyed when they were accused of being communists. “I think that’s what’s happening now all over this country,” he said.
Weinstein said that he had worked too hard and put too much pressure on himself, adding, “I’m really trying to be a better person.” In an emotional statement in court before the sentence was handed down, Haleyi spoke of the trauma she had endured since the attack, saying, “It scarred me deeply, mentally and emotionally, perhaps irreparably, perhaps forever.” She said Weinstein has seemed “completely disconnected from the gravity of the crime he has committed against me.
The jury of seven men and five women acquitted Weinstein on the most serious charges, a single count of first-degree rape as well as two counts of predatory sexual assault, which carried a potential life sentence. Those charges relied on testimony by actress Annabella Sciorra, who said Weinstein raped her in the early 1990s.
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