UPDATED, with jury questions about Annabella Sciorra
Also, the judge denied a motion by Weinstein’s attorneys to dismiss a juror who, they discovered, had recently read a novel about a woman and a sexual predator.an end run around the fact that they ran out of challenges and do not like” the female juror.
Rotunno’s article, published yesterday, was written as a direct plea to the jury to “do what they know is right” and find Weinstein not guilty based on evidence and testimony presented in the monthlong trial. “If this is the conduct that is allowed to persist in this courthouse, Judge, then we are all lost,” Illuzzi said.
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