Harvey Weinstein's lawyer urges to promote a wrong trial, as plaintiff testifies

Harvey Weinstein's defense team continued to make a misunderstanding Wednesday as former Mogul faces rape and criminal charges for the second time.

So far, Justice Curtis Farber has denied all three motions for errors.

Miriam Haley, former production assistant Project runway One of the complainant witnesses in the case was in the stands Tuesday and Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon, Haley claimed Weinstein forced her to have oral sex, explaining why she continued to communicate with the former tycoon after the alleged incident, saying, "I don't know there are others."

Weinstein's defense attorney Arthur Aidala called for shock from the record and misunderstandings that she "polluted the entire jury." Farber made the statement but denied the wrong trial because Haley was expected to see Weinstein exposé in the media in 2017 and other plaintiffs involved in the reports, which was one of the reasons she was waiting to report her alleged incident.

“It will come out,” Farber told Aidala.

Haley is one of three complaint witnesses who filed charges against Weinstein. She also testified at Weinstein's 2020 trial, but in April 2024 the Court of Appeal ruled that the trial judge had improperly allowed other women to testify against Weinstein and was overturned.

The ruling is related to the Molineux rule, which usually prohibits the use of evidence of defendants' previous bad conduct to prove their litigation, an open tendency toward this retrial, and so is the public charges against Weinstein now. Farber said Thursday that in the trial, “about the limitations of Molineux”, Haley will be allowed to testify that she saw reports on sexual assault allegations in 2017, but will not be detailed.

Under the pretrial ruling, neither party can use evidence or arguments related to the reversal of Weinstein's 2020 conviction, nor can they use the decision of the jury to acquit Weinstein for certain charges at the time.

In the stands, Haley claimed the former tycoon was “persistent” in his sexual acts and forced her to have a blowjob at his Manhattan apartment in 2006.

Haley met Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival, and later worked for a production assistant in New York when Weinstein asked about job opportunities. Although she said she had resisted earlier progress, including a repeated invitation to Paris with Weinstein on his private plane, she testified that she accepted the invitation Clerk 2 The movie premiered in Los Angeles.

She said she met Weinstein in his apartment on July 10 and left Los Angeles where he started kissing her and then pushed her to his bedroom where she testified that he placed her on the bed and forced her to have a blowjob.

Haley began to cry as she described the scene, saying, “I want him to get out of me and I said ‘No, no, this won’t happen, no.” I told him I was in my time, “This won’t happen.” He didn’t listen. "She said. "Every time I try to get up, he pushes me back to the bed. ”

“My brain is calculating the best course of action I had for me at that time,” Haley said. “In that moment, the safest thing I decided to do was check it out, endure it and end it and leave.”

Haley testified that she did fly to Los Angeles for the premiere, but didn’t see Weinstein and stayed in touch with him for professional opportunities. She doesn't want to report the incident to the police because Haley, who is not an American citizen, has been working illegally. Project runway On a tourist visa (she said Weinstein knows it). She was worried about deportation and what would happen to her if she reported it to the police or the media.

“My thought is that this guy is very powerful in the entertainment industry and I risk the industry and the media against me,” she said.

Haley also testified that she returned from Los Angeles to New York and met with Weinstein at the hotel because she “trying to gain some control.” In that incident, Hayley said that Weinstein unexpectedly asked to meet her in his hotel room and began an unnecessary relationship with her.

"I'm basically just lying there, more or less, just waiting for it to end. I do blame myself."

The former Mogul also faces rape charges related to claims from aspiring actress Jessica Mann, who claimed she was raped by Weinstein in 2013 at a Manhattan hotel and also testified in 2020. He faces new criminal sexual charges in this trial, related to the claims of former model and actress Kaja Sokola, who claims to everyone's gender assertions that everyone is in her gender or in 2006, she played the 2006 sex in mid-2006. allegations.

Haley's attorney Gloria Allred also represented women's claims against Sean "Diddy" Combs, Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein and R. Kelly, watching her client in the stands in court Tuesday and Wednesday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg witnessed the testimony Tuesday.

Weinstein testified as he watched Haley in the stands and took notes when talking about his conversation with his ex-roommate.

Before her testimony resumed Wednesday, Weinstein's defense team had worked to misunderstand, claiming that prosecutors committed a violation of the found violation by editing information from Haley's organizers, and then made an unedited version Tuesday night, suggesting she lived with senior executives, including Lorne Michaels, and a sign of her time with senior meetings, including Lorne Michaels. Farber also denied the application, saying the defense team could recall witnesses.

Last week, the Defense Force also made a misjudgment after a friend of Haley testified that Haley had "zero interest" in sleeping with Weinstein, which the Defense Force said was biased.

On Wednesday, there was a fierce exchange between the two parties as Ada Nicole Blumberg called on the defense team to have multiple lawyers filed a dispute and filed a motion for the trial.

"There won't be a lawyer. This person's life is online!" Adara shouted.

"Please don't watch the stands," Farber replied.