The lawyer representing Harvey Weinstein at his New York rape trial made a final appeal to the jury on Thursday to acquit him of all five counts of sexual assault, pleading with them not to “criminalize morality” and to act as the last defense against “overzealous prosecutors”.
The jury of seven men and five women is expected to begin deliberating on its verdict on Tuesday.
The first thing Haley did, Rotunno said, was call Gloria Allred, “a civil lawyer who sues people for money”.
The defense lawyer walked the jury through a long series of communications between the accuser and her alleged assailant beginning in 2013 and ending in 2018.