From what I am hearing, he walks (in private when he discards the unneeded walker). There appears to be problems with this particular case and top flight lawyers will put up reasonable doubt. Hope I am wrong.
Best chance to get him is in future cases in other jurisdictions.
Guessing conviction on some, hung jury on others, maybe not guilty of one.
Damn, dude, do you see how authorities seizing all of a person's assets and giving it away might be something that can and will be quickly corrupted and subject to abuse of power?
You have to have some sense of a person's rights...seizing all of their property is grossly oppressive and the kind of thing that you can imagine would happen in totalitarian states.
And yes, I know law enforcement seizes property, but that has to be in direct relationship to the crime (drug money). And civil asset seizure has come under greater scrutiny, as it should.
I haven't listened to any of the podcast episodes yet, but I read the book, and really recommend it. It's infuriating, but also encouraging. A lot of prominent people come off very badly, most of whom have suffered little to no consequences.
At any rate, I have no idea of the merits of the legal case, so no ability to make a prediction. I certainly hope it's a strong enough case to win a conviction.
There was a podcast last week "The Daily" by the NY Times reporter Megan Twohey where she interviews Donna Rotunno who is Weinstein's lead attorney in the case. Rotunno has a long history of representing men accused of sexual assault. It is an absolute must listen if you are into the case. Its about 30 minutes and you have to listen to the end because at the very end Twohey remembers she wanted to ask Rotunno if she's ever been a victim of sexual assault. Rottuno then amazingly gives an answer that if you are at all partial towards female victim's rights you will want to reach through your computer or phone and punch her.
If I'm on a jury, I'd have a difficult time convicting a guy for rape if months or a year later, the accuser is still having sex and proactively contacting the guy.
I'm not so familiar with the case to know if the prosecution possibly could have used a smaller subset of women who are accusing him or if the defense put them up as witnesses.
All I can think of when I see that walker is an old Mob Boss!
If I'm on a jury, I'd have a difficult time convicting a guy for rape if months or a year later, the accuser is still having sex and proactively contacting the guy.
I'm not so familiar with the case to know if the prosecution possibly could have used a smaller subset of women who are accusing him or if the defense put them up as witnesses.
All I can think of when I see that walker is an old Mob Boss!
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the other rapists. His fortune shouldn't pass to his heirs/family but instead be contributed to abused womans' charities.
Damn, dude, do you see how authorities seizing all of a person's assets and giving it away might be something that can and will be quickly corrupted and subject to abuse of power?
You have to have some sense of a person's rights...seizing all of their property is grossly oppressive and the kind of thing that you can imagine would happen in totalitarian states.
And yes, I know law enforcement seizes property, but that has to be in direct relationship to the crime (drug money). And civil asset seizure has come under greater scrutiny, as it should.
Hopefully the same ends can be accomplished by a string of multi-million dollar lawsuits put forth by his victims and clawbacks of any transfers/gifts of his assets he tries to give to others in anticipation of such litigation.
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the other rapists. His fortune shouldn't pass to his heirs/family but instead be contributed to abused womans' charities.
Damn, dude, do you see how authorities seizing all of a person's assets and giving it away might be something that can and will be quickly corrupted and subject to abuse of power?
You have to have some sense of a person's rights...seizing all of their property is grossly oppressive and the kind of thing that you can imagine would happen in totalitarian states.
And yes, I know law enforcement seizes property, but that has to be in direct relationship to the crime (drug money). And civil asset seizure has come under greater scrutiny, as it should.
Hopefully the same ends can be accomplished by a string of multi-million dollar lawsuits put forth by his victims and clawbacks of any transfers/gifts of his assets he tries to give to others in anticipation of such litigation.
Yes, civil lawsuits/penalties is the remedy here.
I feel bad for the women he did coerce/rape in that he could get off because of bad witnesses being exposed on cross examination casting doubt.
In the end, I think he gets convicted.
I also wonder how many producers and directors are quaking in there boots because Weinstein isn't the only POS out there in the valley of hypocrites.
Yet....
Thats the thing hear its not just his wealth that he can lean on, there is a whole bunch of rich scumbags that would benifit from having this case fall apart.
I don’t think anybody really doubts he is a total scumbag. Even the fact that he saved all these texts shows me he knew he did bad stuff and was trying to preserve exculpatory evidence
But still the prosecutors seem to have made bad choices
So were Bill Cosby and R. Kelly but they were convicted.
R Kelly hasn't even been tried yet, let alone convicted. (Well except for that one time he was tried 10+ years ago... and acquitted).
I don't really think either he or Cosby has any relevance to Weinstein, just pointing out the facts.
lonk - ( New Window )
Apparently not.
I wonder if Bubba will use the walker as leverage to stick it in a lot harder than normal?