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On this week's court TV podcast, after weeks of testimony from dozens of witnesses,

the fate of Harvey Weinstein is in the hands of the jury.

Did the prosecution prove their case or was the defense able to show reasonable doubt?

This is the Court TV Podcast with Vinny Polytan and Sima Eyre.

Welcome to the Court TV Podcast.

I'm Vini Politan here at Court TV podcast. I'm Vinny Palatan here at Court TV Headquarters.

Sima Ier, my partner is in New York covering the Weinstein case. So we'll have a

special guest filling in for her later in the podcast.

Chanley Painter who's actually been in the courtroom for every day of the trial and

she'll give us her unique perspective on all that has happened.

But I'm going to start things off and kind of set the groundwork for where we are.

And as we're recording this, the jury is deliberating and we've had closing arguments from both the defense and the prosecution.

And when you think about closing arguments,

most of the trials in cases we cover on court TV,

in most states, most most jurisdictions the prosecution goes first

then the defense can respond to the prosecution and then make their arguments

and then the prosecution has the final rebuttal argument after the defense. But in this

case it's much like where I practice law in New Jersey where there's only two

arguments. The defense goes first and then the prosecution goes. And the

prosecution gets the last word because we the prosecution

that's what I was in New Jersey have the burden of proof we have to prove the case beyond any and all reasonable doubt. The

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