convicted last year of a first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape after a months-long trial that heard the testimonies of six women who accused the former Hollywood mogul of sexual assault.
He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.But in Monday’s 166-page appeal, Weinstein’s defense took issue with a juror who they claimed was dishonest during jury selection about the themes of her novel.“Juror No.
11 was unqualified to sit as a juror at Mr. Weinstein’s trial from the start and should have been excused for cause upon defense counsel’s discovery that she had misrepresented the subject matter of the book she had authored and was publishing at the time she was serving as a juror,” the appeal said.Weinstein’s team also argued that.
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