Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

wow. gonna get uglier still i imagine.

hfs @ this Annabella Sciorra testimony

there's more than what she has already come forward with?

well she testified in court about it today, I'm not sure how detailed her past comments were.

I just love her and feel so bad for her :(

her previous recounting of the details of her experience was graphic enough to have made an impression on me. i felt the same way -- total disgust and repulsion for the monster who would treat the exquisite goddess Annabella Sciorra with such contempt

Yeah exactly

i mean, treating serious people with contempt is the fetish, right?

That’s not a fetish that’s a major malfunction

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/jessica-mann-harvey-weinstein-trial-testimony.html

I qwish someone had told me not to read that.

typo

I quite wish someone had told me not to read that

welp, i won't then!

Jesus, yup.

you guys did and I still did and why did I

guilty on two counts: first degree sexual assault and third degree rape

YES!!!!
I was nervous about the verdict. GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-qJrhGnp3rCT9A-7VncF3jO0JWAbYRXyV4uk6XNS-xytZzEq53KydTDyWoSzPf9zEPZ4p2Zc25URijBwy88pahYQ0434YBB9DfNR1gTNXxAZEs8myQA

stoked for his entirely non-suspicious cell suicide in 3 weeks

Two not guilties and an acquittal though :(

whatever
he got some guilties

He is guilty!!!

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sex act in the first degree involving one woman and rape in the third degree involving another woman.

A New York jury acquitted the disgraced movie mogul on the more serious charges of predatory sexual assault involving the two women, Miriam Haley and Jessica Mann.

In doing so, jurors indicated that they did not find beyond a reasonable doubt that Weinstein had also raped Annabella Sciorra, another victim whose testimony prosecutors used in an attempt to establish Weinstein’s predatory behavior.

(from CNN). Two 'guilties' but still hardly anything to cheer about, if he gets away with the above. As long as he'll be locked away, I guess.

Very harsh on Sciorra, I mean.

Listen I will cheer for what I want to cheer for -- he was found guilty!
He escaped being labeled as a predator and that sucks but I was concerned that he would escape without any convictions and that is not the case.

Weinstein is now a convicted rapist. I'd count that as a win. And "criminal sex act in the first degree" is a class B felony in New York, which is a sentence of 5-25 years.

can he ditch the walker now?

Not at all berating anyone for cheering that he was found guilty. I'm glad he's found guilty too and will be behind barrs. But it sucks that he escaped 10-to-life, especially for the women involved.

xp lol

Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.
Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.

It sucks he had to rape so many women before he was found guilty as a rapist -- but Weinstein is now a convicted rapist.

Will this open the floodgates for more trials, or does it not work that way in the US?

very good news

I'm glad he's found guilty too and will be behind barrs. But it sucks that he escaped 10-to-life, especially for the women involved.

yes, this was my disappointment too - happy he has two convictions, very sorry that his bullshit and sociopathic lack of remorse and millions on lawyers and stupid walker optics managed to deflect so much. especially in the face of the bravery of the women who testified, for how much this validates the decades of fear from dozens or hundreds of women who have still never spoken out

any conviction is good. he could've walked on all these charges, it isn't unheard of

I was bracing myself for the worst so this is definitely good news.

does he still have other trials forthcoming?

My entire lifetime as a woman has been disappointment after disappointment about rapists not being held accountable -- cascades of endless disppointment -- a little relief from THAT disappointment, a real conviction for a BIG RAPIST, is really worth a lot to me personally.

this is good news tho

it could be worse i mean remember when they finally nailed OJ for the abhorrent crime of...briefly preventing a couple of men from leaving a hotel room?

Weinstein will next stand trial in L.A., where he is charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual battery. https://t.co/9U7HKwRaRV

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 24, 2020

xp with guns

I have not seen anyone argue that OJ's crimes were systemic rather than personal.

great news, hope he dies in prison

yeah true but i guess i thought the sentence seemed "harsh" for that crime considering he was a "first time" offender who wasn't actually holding a gun (not harsh if considered a delayed bit of indirect justice).

oh great re LA trial!

can he ditch the walker now?

― StanM, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:02 AM

lol

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:02 AM

he literally walked out of court and left it there

Of course he did! I hope he gets rabies.

In the future, when people think back on Harvey Weinstein, I hope the first image that pops into their heads is that coward shuffling into court w his fake walker

— Liz Phair (@PhizLair) February 24, 2020

it is worth factoring in that Weinstein had basically unlimited money for his defense and he still was found guilty on two charges, including a felony. one hopes the judge takes into account the sheer number of serious, but unadjudicated, accusations when deciding whether to sentence toward the more lenient or the harsher end of the possible sentences.

xp: There are other trials forthcoming. Weinstein will die in prison.

Timothy Hutton accused of raping 14-year-old girl

at this point I'm mostly just depressed about all the people who are not even remotely as famous as whoever Timothy Hutton is who have raped teenagers and will never be held to account for it.