Ep. 13 | Bad Memories
The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered
The Unreported Story Society
4.2 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today the defense called a memory expert who famously exposed the fake Satanic abuse cases in California in the 80s. Dr Elizabeth Loftus is a cognitive psychologist who argues that people can become more vulnerable to post event information like media reports and questioning by police that will effect and shape their recollections of the events. Her testimony includes explanations that could undermine the veracity of some of the accusers accounts. It's a very controversial theory . . . but so was prior testimony from Dr. Barbara Ziv. We give you the audio of both so you can decide for yourself.
There was also a kerfuffle in court today over defense attorney Donna Rotunno's interview with the New York Times podcast, The Daily, where she made some controversial remarks about the complainants. Have a listen to hear her explanation for seemingly disobeying the judges orders.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Anne Michael Henie. |
| 0:02.0 | And I'm Phoelema McElier, and welcome to day 13 of the Harvey Weinstein trial, unfiltered, |
| 0:09.0 | a daily podcast using reenactments of the most dramatic moments of verbatim testimony from the trial. |
| 0:14.5 | But first let's remind you of what the trial is all about. In a case that basically launched the |
| 0:18.7 | Me Too movement, movie producer Harvey Weinstein faces two charges of rape and one of a criminal sex act concerning two separate women. |
| 0:26.0 | He also faces charges of predatory sexual assault which carry a possible life sentence. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, so today was very interesting, a lot of very interesting witnesses. |
| 0:34.8 | The prosecution rested yesterday so now it's the defense. |
| 0:38.0 | Yesterday they had Paul Felcher who was supposed to prove that what happened between Harvey Weinstein and Annabela Skiora was consensual. |
| 0:46.7 | It was basically he was a dumpster fire of a witness. |
| 0:48.9 | He lost control. |
| 0:50.1 | It was an awful, I think in the, he scored scored some points but in the end he destroyed his credibility and maybe damaged Harvey White. |
| 0:57.6 | Do you say that because of the fact that he was like such a friend and so? Yeah and sex addict and you know just Yeah but he called him a cad and I mean it doesn't prove |
| 1:05.6 | anything but I want to move on because I'm actually so excited to share today's |
| 1:09.2 | testimony because we got to hear Elizabeth Loftus. Yeah. |
| 1:13.0 | And I mean she has such an ex- |
| 1:14.0 | This woman is an American hero. |
| 1:17.0 | By the way, people have been writing to us saying, |
| 1:18.0 | stop talking over each other, we're married, we're not going to. |
| 1:21.0 | So, but we're excited by this witness because |
| 1:23.6 | Professor Elizabeth Loftis university if you... For anyone out there yeah who really |
| 1:27.2 | likes true crime by the way this woman has an extraordinary CV and a more amazing just |
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