A New York jury of seven women and five men are nearly set to begin deliberations in his sexual assault and rape retrial on after the disgraced movie mogul’s defense concluded its closing argument Tuesday afternoon.
The prosecution has one last turn to present its final thoughts Wednesday, after which the panel will begin to deliberate whether he raped one woman in 2006 and assaulted two others that same year, all of whom have testified.
Though Weinstein told his lawyers he wanted to testify in his own defense, they ultimately decided it would be too risky. He did, however, take the unusual step of granting a jailhouse interview, to Candace Owens, telling the conservative commentator that sexual encounters with the women was consensual and purely “transactional.”
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