The landscape in which law enforcement and prosecutors can investigate and try sexually violent crimes has fundamentally changed | CarolinePolisi for CNNopinion
Caroline Polisi is a federal and white collar criminal defense attorney at Pierce Bainbridge in New York City and an adjunct Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. She frequently appears on CNN as a legal analyst. Follow her on Twitter: @CarolinePolisi. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Read more opinion on CNN.
On the eve of Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial in New York for felony charges on two counts of predatory sexual assault, two counts of rape and one count of a criminal sexual act, he's been charged in Los Angeles with forcible rape and sexual battery, among other serious violent sex crimes. If convicted of the charges in the LA complaint, which stem from two alleged encounters with separate victims on consecutive nights in 2013, he faces up to 28 years in prison.
Weinstein has denied any criminal wrongdoing and contends that any sexual acts he engaged in were consensual.Caroline PolisiI've asked in previous columns whether or not the #MeToo movement, catalyzed over two years ago by bombshell revelations about Weinstein's alleged decades-long sexual predation, would infiltrate our criminal justice system in meaningful ways.
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