Many interpreted Harvey Weinstein's conviction and sentencing in 2020 as a painfully overdue moment of reckoning for powerful, sexually abusive men like Mr. Weinstein. As the district attorney who brought the charges against Mr. Weinstein, I certainly felt so. The appeals court decision surprised me because I had been to the trial and witnessed the honesty, raw pain and power of the survivors' testimonies on the witness stand.
The appeals court decision surprised me because I had been to the trial and witnessed the honesty, raw pain and power of the survivors' testimonies on the witness stand. It troubled me because with no deference provided to the lower court, the Court of Appeals, in a 4-to-3 decision, had reversed a lengthy, objectively thoughtful, well considered and, importantly, unanimous opinion by a panel of the distinguished intermediate appeals court that sustained every single aspect of the jury's verdict and evidentiary rulings by the trial judge at the Weinstein trial.
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