Ep. 15 | The Defense Rests
The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered
The Unreported Story Society
4.2 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The defense rested their case yesterday in the Harvey Weinstein trial. They did not put up the defense they promised as a number of witnesses failed to appear. It was a short but exciting day in court as it seemed that Harvey Weinstein wanted to testify and the court went into recess while Weinstein consulted with his attorneys. Ultimately, they took the decision that he should not take the stand. A spokesman said Harvey Weinstein made the decision reluctantly.
The last person to take the witness stand for the defense was Thomas Richards. Richards is a friend of Jessica Mann who testified that Mann was friendly with Weinstein shortly a few hours after she says she was raped by him. Richards was staying with Mann in the hotel in New York where the alleged rape took place. He testified Weinstein asked her to stay another night and she agreed with no indication that she was in distress at the time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Anne Michael Henney. |
| 0:01.7 | And I'm Phila Macalier. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to Day 15 of the Harvey Weinstein trial unfiltered, |
| 0:06.8 | a daily podcast using reenactments |
| 0:08.9 | of the most dramatic moments of verbatim testimony |
| 0:11.6 | from the trial of Harvey Weinstein. |
| 0:14.2 | But first, let's just remind you all of what this trial is all about. |
| 0:17.9 | In a case that basically launched the Me Too movement, |
| 0:20.1 | movie producer Harvey Weinstein faces two charges of rape and one of a criminal sex act concerning two separate women. |
| 0:26.5 | He also faces charges of predatory sexual assault which carry a possible life sentence. |
| 0:32.2 | So today was a very significant day, day 15, a lot quicker than most people had thought |
| 0:38.0 | and actually will be coming to that reason later on perhaps. |
| 0:41.0 | Today marked the end of the defense case. We heard the words the defense |
| 0:46.1 | rests. But before we heard that we heard the probably not so dramatic words that |
| 0:51.3 | Harvey Weinstein would not take the stand to defend himself. |
| 0:55.6 | So there was a little bit of drama, you know, the judge said, do you want to, is he going to testify? |
| 1:01.5 | And they said we have to consult again with their client and they went off and huddled in a private room for a half an hour and there was a bit of speculation |
| 1:09.2 | Especially among the journalists who were both looking forward to and dreading Harvey Weinstein |
| 1:17.0 | taking the stand it was going to be they realized it would probably take a couple of |
| 1:22.3 | weeks for him to give evidence they realized it would probably take a couple of weeks for him to give evidence. |
| 1:23.8 | They realized it would be a great copy, but that would go on forever. |
| 1:28.2 | Then we'd all be queuing at 5 a.m. in the morning and the weather was not going to get any warmer. |
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