The jury has begun deliberating in the Los Angeles trial of Harvey Weinstein
guilty of the two rape counts and five sexual assault counts he's charged with.
In his closing, Weinstein's defense attorney Alan Jackson emphasized the absence of physical evidence of the assaults, none of which were reported to authorities until years later. He told jurors two of the accusers were clearly lying, and the other two had reframed “transactional” and “100% consensual” sexual acts with Weinstein as assaults after he became a magnet for the #MeToo movement in 2017.In his rebuttal, Thompson guided jurors back through the evidence for each woman.
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