{"id":81141,"date":"2020-03-08T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T09:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=81141"},"modified":"2020-03-08T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T09:10:18","slug":"weinsteins-prison-sentence-should-reflect-lifetime-of-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/weinsteins-prison-sentence-should-reflect-lifetime-of-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Weinstein&#8217;s prison sentence should reflect &#8216;lifetime of abuse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein should get a prison sentence that reflects not only his conviction for sexually assaulting two women, but a \u201clifetime of abuse towards others,\u201d New York prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe has consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others,\u201d prosecutors wrote. \u201cHe has destroyed people\u2019s lives and livelihoods or threatened to do so on whim.\u201dProsecutors did not recommend a specific sentence in the filing for Weinstein, who faces a maximum sentence of 29 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jury of seven men and five women acquitted Weinstein on the most serious charges, which carried a potential life sentence. Those charges relied on testimony by actress Annabella Sciorra, who said Weinstein raped her in the early 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Haleyi, Mann and Sciorra, prosecutors called three more women to testify against Weinstein, portraying him as a serial predator who had manipulated women with promises to open doors in Hollywood, coaxing them to hotel rooms or private apartments, and then overpowering and violently attacking them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout Weinstein\u2019s trial, the defense said regret drove his accusers to reframe consensual encounters as crimes. Weinstein\u2019s lawyers zeroed in on friendly messages and ongoing contact between the women and Weinstein.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein should get a prison sentence that reflects not only his conviction for sexually assaulting two women, but a \u201clifetime of abuse towards others,\u201d New York prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday. \u201cHe has consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others,\u201d prosecutors wrote. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81143,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81141\/revisions\/81143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}