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New York, 24 February 2020
1. Harvey Weinstein arrives at courthouse

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New York, 24 February 2020
2. Harvey Weinstein in the hallway outside of courtroom

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Los Angeles, 12 December 1999
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3. Medium shot Harvey Weinstein arrives at premiere of "The Talented Mr Ripley"

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Cannes, France, 29 May 1995
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4. Medium shot Harvey Weinstein at press conference with Sharon Stone

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Cannes, France, 15 May 1996
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5. Various shots Harvey Weinstein speaking to a reporter

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New York, January 2003
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6. Various shots Harvey Weinstein speaks to reporter

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Cannes, France, 24 May 2015
7. Wide shot Harvey Weinstein and wife Georgina Chapman at closing night of Cannes Film Festival

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Cannes, France, 24 May 2013
8. Wide shot Harvey Weinstein climbing steps at Cannes premiere

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New York, 9 July 2018
9. Various of Harvey Weinstein arriving at court

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New York, 13 September 2017
10. Various of Harvey Weinstein seated at a Marchesa fashion show at New York Fashion Week
STORYLINE:
Harvey Weinstein could see the long prison term he is already serving nearly doubled at his California sentencing, bringing the onetime movie magnate and lord of the Oscars to a new low after convictions for rape and sexual assault.

Unless she grants a defense motion for a new trial, Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench is scheduled to sentence the 70-year-old Weinstein in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday. She could give him up to 18 years in prison. He has more than 20 years left on his sentence in New York after a 2020 conviction there.

Jurors in December convicted Weinstein of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault against an Italian model and actor during a 2013 film festival in the run-up to that year’s Academy Awards. The jury spared Weinstein an even longer sentence when they acquitted him of the sexual battery of a massage therapist and failed to reach verdicts on counts involving two other women.

The victim whose dramatic testimony led to the guilty counts may make a statement on the toll the attack has taken on her.

Last week, Lench rejected a request from Gloria Allred, an attorney for some of the women who testified at trial, to allow others to make similar statements in court about the man who has for five years been a magnet for the #MeToo movement.

“I’m not going to make this an open forum on Mr. Weinstein’s conduct,” Lench said.

The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually assaulted.

The judge will first hear arguments over a defense motion that Weinstein should be given a new trial or have his verdict reduced. Weinstein’s lawyers say Lench’s rejection of evidence they wanted to use at trial proved prejudicial to him.

The defense attorneys argue that they ought to have been allowed to introduce private Facebook messages that showed there was a sexual relationship between the Italian woman and Pascal Vicedomini, director of the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival, which she was attending when she said the attack occurred.


The defense argued in their closing that the two had a sexual relationship, but Lench allowed jurors to see only the messages between them that established her timing and location.

The law gives Lench “the singular responsibility of setting right those prejudicial errors which often become apparent only with the benefit of hindsight,” the lawyers wrote in the motion.

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