{"id":162697,"date":"2022-12-19T23:53:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/harvey-weinstein-found-guilty-of-rape-sexual-assault-in-los-angeles-trial\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T23:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T23:53:58","slug":"harvey-weinstein-found-guilty-of-rape-sexual-assault-in-los-angeles-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/harvey-weinstein-found-guilty-of-rape-sexual-assault-in-los-angeles-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape, sexual assault in Los Angeles trial"},"content":{"rendered":"
Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault but acquitted of one count of sexual battery after a trial in Los Angeles, nearly three years after the disgraced movie mogul was convicted at a watershed sex crimes trial in New York city.<\/p>\n
The jury of four women and eight men was hung on three other counts against him. They deliberated for nine days.<\/p>\n
Weinstein, 70, pleaded not guilty in both trials and denies all of nonconsensual sex. He is serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, where he was found guilty in February 2020 of two felonies \u2014 third-degree rape and criminal sexual act in the first degree.<\/p>\n
In both trials, Weinstein waived his right to take the witness stand.<\/p>\n
The verdict followed weeks of emotional and sometimes excruciatingly graphic testimony from 44 witnesses for the prosecution, including Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n
Siebel Newsom broke down in tears on the witness stand as she described the night Weinstein allegedly raped her in a Beverly Hills hotel suite.<\/p>\n