“The man seated on that side of the courtroom, despite what your eyes are looking at, is not a harmless old man,” Hast said. AdvertisementThrough the first week of testimony at Weinstein’s sexual assault trial, prosecutors have continually asked witnesses to describe the mogul’s girth and physical stature in the early 1990s, 2006 and 2013 — the time frames in which three different women say Weinstein raped them in Manhattan. Weinstein is charged with first-degree rape, two counts of predatory sexual assault, one count of first-degree sexual assault and one count of third-degree rape. Weinstein and his associates have denied the back surgery was timed to have any influence on the trial. AdvertisementBill Cosby was met with skepticism in 2017 when he revealed that he had gone blind in an interview published just one month before his trial on sexual assault charges in Pennsylvania began.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 30, 2020 20:03 UTC