Weinstein jailed for 23 years

[Jimbuna]

Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.

Weinstein was found guilty in a trial in New York last month, finalising a dramatic fall from grace for one of Hollywood's most powerful figures.

The 67-year-old appeared in court on Wednesday in a wheelchair.

Weinstein's lawyers had appealed for leniency, insisting that even the minimum sentence of five years could be a "life sentence" for him.

But prosecutors argued Weinstein should be given the maximum possible sentence given his "lifetime of abuse" towards women and "lack of remorse" for his actions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51840532

I should imagine he will probably die in prison.

[Mr Quatro]

I should imagine he will probably die in prison.

Wow! Plenty of time to think about it ... justice served :yep:

[u crank]

There is one guy I have zero sympathy for.

[Moonlight]

^ Me Too, what happens to him now then, do they put him in a protected wing away from all those hardened criminals or will he be put in amongst them?. Scary times ahead for Harvey me thinks. that's besides having to dodge picking up the bars of soap in the showers. :O:

[Skybird]

Me has no sympathy for hi either, still this is a dangeorus, a very dangerous precedence. No evidence must be given. No guilt must be proven. The guts feeling of s crowd now is what decides the sentence guilty or not.

RIP, in dubio pro reo. - I assume lynching on behalf of the correct Zeitgeist ideology comes next.

A very dangerous path they have opened up there, though it is not the only attempt to do it.

[Catfish]

Inconsistent evidence. The jury "decided". :nope:

[HW3]

He now goes to Los Angeles for trial there on similar charges.

[Wasserfalke]

Aw crud. I thought it said Feinstein.

[em2nought]

Aw crud. I thought it said Feinstein.
Nope, she's up for an ethnic diversity in hiring practices award. :D
https://rabidrepublicanblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Feinstein-that-damn-Trump.jpg