Harvey Weinstein he will not testify in his ongoing trial for sexual assault and rape.

Weinstein’s attorney, Mark Werksman, told the judge on Monday morning, Nov. 28, that his client would not testify. Weinstein also confirmed that it was his decision not to take the stand, telling the judge that he chose not to testify.

“I want you to understand that you have an absolute right to testify,” Judge Lisa B. Lench told Weinstein in the courtroom Monday morning. You also told Weinstein that you have the right not to testify. “Yes,” Weinstein replied, indicating to the judge that she understands his rights, but she chose not to testify.

Weinstein did not testify at his 2020 New York trial and it seemed unlikely that he would testify at this trial.

The accusations

Weinstein faces seven counts in this trial: five counts of sexual assault and two counts of rape. If convicted on all counts, he could face 60 years. If acquitted, he would still serve the remainder of his 23-year sentence in New York, where he was convicted of rape and sexual assault nearly three years ago, although his New York defense team is currently appealing that conviction. The York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, agreed to hear.

After a week-long Thanksgiving jury break, the trial resumed Monday morning in downtown Los Angeles at the Criminal Courts Building. The prosecution stopped before the holidays, after nearly a month of calling witnesses.

The defense will begin presenting its case today, which is expected to be much shorter than the prosecution. Weinstein’s defense said they expect to rest by Wednesday of this week.

The film

It premiered in Argentina last Thursday, a week later in the United States, She saidbased on the investigation that two journalists of the newspaper The New York Times they did around the Weinstein case.

We said before the premiere that the film about how the Weinstein case was uncovered – or rather the pornographic amount of abuse, sexual harassment and rape perpetrated by the former film producer, currently in prison – has its pros and cons , and all for the immediacy, the proximity of what is narrated.

Indeed the film by the director of the miniseries unorthodox Maria Schrader is based on the book referred to by journalists The New York Times Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey released in 2019, with the same title as the film.

Many observant viewers will already know what will happen when reporters persuade one of the harassed women to give their testimony under their first and last names.

The actresses who play journalists are carey mulligan and Zoë Kazan. Decidedly, She said It is not a debated film, that is, debated, because everything is very clear. It causes more discussion than the controversy over impunity that some powerful people believe they have, and also that of the media.

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