Because a prior conviction and innumerable accounts that prove a pattern of behavior just aren't enough evidence to prove rape occurred.
told the court that all of the accusers set to testify against Weinstein will describe “unique things about his body”—namely, his balls. “What I’m referring to is the result of a surgery that the defendant had in 1999,” Thompson elaborated. “Because of an infection, his testicles were actually taken from his scrotum and put into his inner thighs.
that she felt “compassion” for Weinstein after she saw his deformed genitalia. Additionally, jurors were shown nude photographs—including a full-frontal shot—of Weinstein., Mark Werksman, Weinstein’s attorney, told the court that prior to the MeToo movement, it was a perfectly common practice for women hoping to break into the industry to barter with sex: “Hollywoodwas an entirely different place. In Hollywood, sex was a commodity. That’s the way things were done.