Harvey Weinstein makes use of a walker as he arrives on the Manhattan Legal Court docket, on January 7, 2020 on the second day of his felony trial
Harvey Weinstein makes use of a walker as he arrives on the Manhattan Legal Court docket, on January 7, 2020 on the second day of his felony trial on costs of rape and sexual assault in New York Metropolis.
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Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein was threatened Tuesday with being jailed for contempt of courtroom by a choose who noticed him utilizing a mobile phone within the courtroom through the first day of jury choice in his New York Metropolis rape case.
“Mr. Weinstein, I can not implore you extra to not reply the next query — which means do not say something,” Decide James Burke advised Weinstein, according to The New York Post.
“Is that this actually the best way you need to find yourself in jail for the remainder of your life by texting and violating a courtroom order?” Burke requested.
Burke has beforehand warned Weinstein towards utilizing his cellphone in Manhattan Legal Court docket.
Additionally Tuesday, the lead prosecutor within the case, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, reportedly asked Burke to revoke Weinstein’s bail and jail him pending the trial’s outcome due to new sexual assault costs that had been filed towards him Monday by prosecutors in Los Angeles.
Weinstein is accused within the case pending in New York of raping one of many girls in a Manhattan lodge room in 2013, and of forcibly performing a sexual act on one other girl in 2006.
Burke declined to jail Weinstein.
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