Ep. 22 | Harvey Weinstein's Sentencing: 23 Years In Prison
The Harvey Weinstein Trial: Unfiltered
The Unreported Story Society
4.2 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday the Harvey Weinstein trial finally came to a close as Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. Weinstein was convicted last month for sexually assaulting Mimi Haleyi and for raping Jessica Mann. Before today's sentencing, Weinstein was facing up to 29 years in prison. The defense sought a small sentence of only five years and argued that Weinstein would be unable to survive in prison no longer than five years. Additionally, the defense argued that Weinstein had already faced significant financial and personal losses due to the trial. Weinstein will likely serve his sentence in Rikers Island jail in New York.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Anne Macalhenney and I'm Phala Macalier. |
| 0:02.2 | Welcome to episode 22 of the Harvey Weinstein trial unfiltered a daily podcast |
| 0:07.1 | using reenactments of the most dramatic moments of verbatim testimony from the trial of |
| 0:11.2 | Harvey Weinstein. And this is the final episode of the series. |
| 0:14.3 | This is the sentencing. Weinstein has already been found guilty of sexual assault |
| 0:18.4 | charges, not the worst offenses he was charged with, but still serious offenses. |
| 0:22.8 | So let's just first remind you what the trial was about. |
| 0:26.0 | It's a case that basically launched the Me Too movement. |
| 0:29.0 | Movie producer Harvey Weinstein faced two charges of rape and one of a criminal sex act concerning two separate |
| 0:36.1 | women. |
| 0:37.1 | He also faced two charges of predatory sexual assault, the most serious charge of all, which |
| 0:42.2 | actually carried a possible life |
| 0:43.9 | sentence he was acquitted of this most serious charge however he was |
| 0:48.2 | convicted of the lesser charges that he faced a first-degree criminal sex act for forcing oral sex on |
| 0:55.0 | production assistant Miriam Haley he was also convicted of the third degree |
| 0:59.3 | rape of Jessica Mann. The difference between the two charges are the degree of compulsion and force |
| 1:04.8 | used. Third degree means non-consensual. First degree means force was used in the attack. |
| 1:11.0 | And first to speak directly to the court was Jonah Lucy Orban, the assistant district attorney |
| 1:15.2 | who has had a very successful trial. |
| 1:17.5 | She had accusers whose stories had weaknesses, but she was able to convince the jury that their |
| 1:21.3 | accounts were true. She true everything she had at Weinstein |
| 1:24.5 | and a lot of it stuck. She did not lay off him in her address to Judge James Burke regarding |
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