CONVICTED, SHE WAS CONVINCED THAT HARVEY WEINSTEIN WOULD
VICTIMIZE WOMEN AGAIN AND AGAIN.
STAND BY, RON ALLEN OUTSIDE THIS
COURTHOUSE HERE IN NEW YORK CITY
AND, RON, YOU ARE ABLE TO
PROVIDE A BIT OF COLOR FROM
INSIDE THE COURTROOM A FEW
MOMENTS AGO.
MOMENTS AGO. WHAT MORE DO WE KNOW ABOUT WHAT
WENT ON INSIDE THAT COURTROOM?
>> IT WAS AN EMOTIONAL SESSION.
THE ENTIRE TRIAL EVEN BEFORE
THIS WAS REALLY, REALLY HEAVY
WITH EMOTION.
WITH EMOTION. THESE WOMEN WHO ACCUSED
WEINSTEIN CAME FORWARD RELUCTANT
RELUCTANTLY.
RELUCTANTLY. THEIR LIVES WERE TURNED INSIDE
OUT AND DURING THE SENTENCING
SESSION MIMI HALEY WAS VERY
EMOTIONAL AND IN TEARS TALKING
ABOUT HOW MANIPULATIVE HARVEY
WEINSTEIN WAS AND HOW IT WAS
EXCRUCIATING FOR HER AND HOW SHE
FEARED RETALIATION IF SHE CAME
FORWARD AND REVEALED OR
COMPLAINED ABOUT WHAT HE HAD
DONE TO HER.
JESSICA MANN TALKED ABOUT HOW
HARVEY WEINSTEIN TOOK ADVANTAGE
OF HER.
OF HER. HOW FIGHTING HIM OFF WHEN HE WAS
ATTACKING HER WAS NOT POSSIBLE.
HOW SHE FELT DOMINATED BY HIM.
HOW THIS WAS JUST AN UNBEARABLE
PAIN THAT SHE WAS GOING THROUGH
ALL THIS TIME.
AND, REMEMBER, DURING THE TRIAL
THERE WERE A TOTAL OF SIX WOMEN
WHO WERE ESSENTIALLY TELLING THE
SAME STORY DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
YOU TALK ABOUT HOW, OF COURSE,
THE JUDGE HEARD ALL OF THIS.
AND IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE NOT
TO BE AFFECTED BY THAT, I WOULD
THINK, AS JUST A HUMAN BEING.
AND, OF COURSE, EVERYONE IS VERY
MINDFUL OF WHAT IS GOING ON
OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM.
THE METOO MOVEMENT.
DURING THE HEARING WEINSTEIN’S
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS MADE A POINT
OF SAYING TO THE JUDGE, PLEASE,
JUST LOOK AT WHAT’S HAPPENING
HERE.
HERE. THE SAME THING THEY SAID TO THE
JURY.
JURY. LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS THE
EVIDENCE BEFORE YOU.
PLEASE, DO NOT CONSIDER WHAT IS
GOING ON OUTSIDE.
WINEEINSTEIN NEVER GOT A FAIR TR
AND NO WAY HE COULD POSSIBLY GET
A FAIR TRIAL GIVEN THE METOO AND
ALL THE EMOTION SURROUNDING THIS
CASE.
CASE. SO, THAT’S THE BROADER CONTEXT
IN WHICH THIS SENTENCE WAS
HANDED DOWN AND THE CONVICTIONS
WERE HANDED DOWN.
AGAIN, JUST A VERY, VERY
POWERFUL, EMOTIONAL TIME.
WE HOPE NOW TO HEAR FROM THE
PROSECUTORS AS THEY COME
OUTSIDE, THE PROSECUTOR AND THE
HEAD OF THE D.A.’S OFFICE HERE
SAID THIS WAS A TURNING POINT.
THIS WAS A SEMINOLE MOMENT IN
THE HISTORY HE HOPED OF
PROSECUTING SEX CRIMES.
OF COURSE, ACROSS THE COUNTRY,
PROSECUTORS ARE LOOKING AT THIS.
THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT, THE ME TOO
MOVEMENT NOT JUST WOMEN, OF
COURSE, BUT MEN, AS WELL.
ARE LOOKING TO THIS CASE TO
REALLY SEND A MESSAGE THAT
WOMEN’S VOICES, VICTIM’S VOICES
WILL BE HEARD AND WILL BE
BELIEVED IN COURTROOMS.
THAT’S THE HOPE THAT SO MANY