More than two years after start of the accusations of sexual Assault against Harvey Weinstein (67) in New York on Monday of the anticipated trial of the former Hollywood Mogul.
The Supreme court of the state of New York in Manhattan, judge James Burke has to choose initially, however, a Jury, which can take a headline-making process for several days, and some observers even go up to two weeks.
the process against Harvey Weinstein could have accused several weeks
More than 80 women, including well-known Actresses such as Angelina Jolie, Ashley Judd, Uma Thurman or Salma Hayek, the Weinstein in recent years of sexual Assault. Many of them are expected as spectators in the court. The process could take several weeks, but only to the allegations of two women – one of them should have forced the Weinstein 2006 to Oral Sex, the other he 2013 raped. In the case of conviction a sentence of life imprisonment threatens the 67-Year-old.
the Decisive factor will be whether the case had ushered in 2017, the MeToo-Era in the criticism of a pattern of sexualized male abuse of power, is also before a criminal court. The output is completely open. The prosecutors have to prove legally that Weinstein had made of the rape, criminal sexual acts, and predatory sexual Assault guilty. The 67-Year-old has repeatedly stressed, any and all actions had been consensual.
the allegations against Weinstein were the basis for MeToo-movement
The allegations against Weinstein in the fall of 2017 by the “New York Times” and the magazine “the New Yorker” published and later with the Pulitzer-prize-winning, los occurred, the MeToo movement. Throughout the world many women and some men recognized their own stories in which the cream of Tartar victims again and began to collect them under the tag “Metoo” (“I”). The spectrum ranged from stupid sayings, unflätigem behavior of abuse of authority to years of violence.
From the Internet arose, together with the campaign TimesUp (English: The time is abuse), a powerful movement against power, against violence against women and for equal rights. Your spurs reached the last angle in many industries and companies, many famous people lost their Jobs – such as the comedian Louis C. K. or of the actor Kevin Spacey. The only one Convicted of the MeToo-Era Entertainer Bill Cosby, has been sitting for 2018 due to sexual assault in prison is in the past. The public accusations against him began however already years before the scandal of cream of Tartar.
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