Jurors at Weinstein rape trial continue to focus on Sciorra

By Dominic Patten, Jill Goldsmith

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.

NEW YORK – Harvey Weinstein, 67, was sentenced in New York City on Wednesday to 23 years in prison for third-degree rape and a criminal sex act as he maintained he simply had consensual "extramarital affairs" with the victims.

NEW YORK -- The jury that convicted Harvey Weinstein of rape and sex assault did not consider the trial's implications for the #MeToo movement, one of the jurors said in an interview aired Friday.

With Monday's guilty verdicts on two charges -- third-degree rape and of a criminal sex act -- at Harvey Weinstein's New York trial, the question now turns to what’s next for the former Hollywood film producer considering he’s facing similar charges in California.

With Monday's guilty verdicts on two charges -- third-degree rape and of a criminal sex act -- at Harvey Weinstein's New York trial, the question now turns to what’s next for the former Hollywood film producer considering he’s facing similar charges in California. Immediately following the verdict, Judge James Burke – who presided over the trial – remanded the disgraced movie mogul to jail, where he’ll likely sit until his sentencing, until he’s transported to face trial in California.

Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted by a jury of two felony sex crimes -- criminal sexual assault in the first degree and rape in the third degree -- on Monday (Feb. 24) in a verdict that brought closure to the most prominent #MeToo case against a powerful figure in entertainment. 

A verdict has been reached in the yearslong case against Harvey Weinstein.  On Monday, a jury of seven men and five women came to a verdict in the 2-year trial, five days since deliberations began on Tuesday. The disgraced Hollywood producer, who has been the subject of dozens of various public sexual misconduct allegations since The New York Times and The New Yorker published sequential reports in 2017, was found guilty on two counts, rape in the third degree and criminal sexual act in the

Harvey Weinstein’s long-awaited verdict has been delivered, and the disgraced producer has been found guilty of two of five charges leveraged against him in his New York trial: criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree.

By Greg Evans

NEW YORK -- Deliberating for a third day, the jury at Harvey Weinstein's trial continued Thursday to focus a lot of attention on actress Annabella Sciorra’s linchpin allegations that the once-heralded Hollywood mogul raped and sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial appeared to take a methodical approach in their deliberations on Wednesday, asking to review testimony from a former production assistant who says Weinstein raped her as well as from actress Rosie Perez.

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s fate is in the hands of a New York City jury in the first trial for the man whose alleged misconduct helped spark the #MeToo movement.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The jury in former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's rape trial resumed deliberations on Wednesday, a day after the presiding judge took the former Hollywood producer's lead defense lawyer to task for writing an opinion piece about the case.

NEW YORK -- Jurors are returning Wednesday for a second day of deliberations in a rape trial that could send Harvey Weinstein to prison for the rest of his life.