Ep. 19 | The Gag Order
The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered
The Unreported Story Society
4.2 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It was supposed to be a quiet day in court but the day opened with a bang with the prosecution accusing the defense of witness tampering and the defense demanding a jury member be removed for bias and lying about their bias.
Then the jury began deliberating and started questioning the judge about his instructions. They also questioned the charges and combination of charges they are being asked to decide on. Has the judge helped tor added to their confusion? There were a lot of accusations flying and the judge put a media gag order on the defense. And then the jury left the room for the second time and we await the verdict.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Anne Mackelheney and I'm Phila McElier and welcome to Day 18 of the Harvey Weinstein |
| 0:05.7 | trial unfiltered a daily podcast using reenactments of the most dramatic moments of verbatim testimony |
| 0:11.3 | from the trial of Harvey Weinstein. |
| 0:13.2 | But first let's just remind you of what this trial is all about. |
| 0:16.5 | In a case that basically launched the Me Too movement, movie producer Harvey Weinstein faces |
| 0:20.7 | two charges of rape and one of a criminal sex act concerning two separate women. |
| 0:25.6 | He also faces charges of predatory sexual assault which carry a possible life sentence, |
| 0:30.0 | but today we're going to actually hear a lot more about those. |
| 0:33.0 | Yeah, the charges are not simple. |
| 0:35.0 | The charges are complicated, even though that base is simple. |
| 0:38.6 | There's actually six women who've given evidence. |
| 0:42.4 | There's only three women that are relevant, |
| 0:44.2 | but two are particularly relevant, |
| 0:45.8 | and one is an add-on. |
| 0:47.9 | It is complicated, and as you'll hear, |
| 0:49.7 | it's not just us who have been confused by it, the jury was as well. |
| 0:54.1 | So today was very, very interesting. |
| 0:56.9 | And I- |
| 0:57.1 | Today is it by all accounts, today is the last day really, right? |
| 1:00.6 | So the jury are going out today, have gone out. |
| 1:04.0 | And normally, and today was the judge's summing up and he said it would take an hour and |
| 1:09.1 | honestly I was worried that we wouldn't have enough for a podcast today, but wow, did it get hot and heavy early on and |
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