'After a few agonizing minutes, Judge Burke then said the magic words we had been waiting 33 days of court proceedings to hear: 'We, the jury, have reached a verdict.'' jeremymbarr reveals what happened inside the courtroom after Harvey Weinstein verdict
The 60 or so reporters seated in the Part 99 courtroom on the 15th floor of the New York County Supreme Court building sat up in their seats and came to attention, ready to hear that the jury's latest message to the judge — signaled with aMy first sign that the jury message was not a verdict was when Weinstein attorney Damon Cheronis told a fellow lawyer what the contents of the message were and she literally laughed out loud.
Ten minutes later, the jury of seven men and five women entered the room and took their seats. Within three minutes, we had our verdict, read by foreman Bernard Cody. Reporters strained to get a glimpse of Weinstein's reaction, but he was mostly blocked, though I could see clearly that he seemed to freeze in place when he was asked to stand up and be taken into custody.
Attorneys Douglas Wigdor and Debra Katz, who represented some of the six women who testified that Weinstein sexually assaulted them, went first. Cody kept telling journalists that he would not answer any questions as he walked, but that didn't stop several of them from following him for two or three blocks.
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