Harvey Weinstein Sentenced To 23 Years In Prison For Rape And Sexual Abuse

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Source: NPR

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison. Judge James Burke handed down the decision in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday as the disgraced movie mogul watched, flanked by his legal team.

His 20-year sentence for a criminal sexual act, the more serious of the two counts he was convicted of last month, is on the higher end of New York state's guidelines. For the other count, rape in the third degree, Weinstein was sentenced to three years in prison.

"We thank the survivors for their remarkable statements today and indescribable courage over the last two years," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement released Wednesday.

"Harvey Weinstein deployed nothing less than an army of spies to keep them silent," he added. "But they refused to be silent, and they were heard. Their words took down a predator and put him behind bars and gave hope to survivors of sexual violence all across the world."

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March 11, 2020 11:06 AM ET
COLIN DWYER

Updated at 1:53 p.m. ET


Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814051801/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-23-years-in-prison

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Original NPR headline: Harvey Weinstein Sentenced To 23 Years In Prison

[2naSalit]

1. And his LA trial hasn't even started yet...

[Aristus]

2. Pretty much a life sentence for him.

Good...

[MLAA]

3. Good.

[riversedge]

4. #metoo

[Jamastiene]

7. #metoo

also

I wish all of them would get long sentences for that.

[CaptYossarian]

21. Including Comrade Carrot in the WH.

When the idiot confesses to Billy Bush, who needs witnesses?

[Jamastiene]

25. Yes!

Plus all of the Epstein stuff. He's really deranged all the way around.

[Talitha]

5. Best news I've heard in weeks!

[Submariner]

6. His millions of dollars should be divided up among ALL the young actresses

who had their careers stopped cold, or crushed enough that they never made it in the business that ALL of them dreamed of as little girls.

They were raised properly, did the right things to get in the business, then they meet an ugly troll that said touch me or I'll kill your dreams and all your prospects.

He should lose everything.

[Jamastiene]

8. +1000 n/t

[MissMillie]

14. I imagine that as the guilty verdicts pile on

so will the civil suits.

He'll be sitting in jail watching his bank accounts tank.

[Withywindle]

23. THIS. Peter Jackson came forward and said there were two actresses

he didn't consider for roles in Lord of the Rings because Weinstein said they were "difficult to work with." (That means they fought him off, I guess). He really regrets it and publicly apologized for taking Weinstein's word for it.

I'm guessing pretty much EVERY director who worked with him as a producer has a story like this. If they all came forward and owned up, we'd begin to see the magnitude of what was lost.

[usaf-vet]

9. I don't disagree with this sentence but I would have like to have seen Roger Stone get a similar....

...sentence for his crimes.

[shanti]

16. Or Epstein

Especially Epstein.

[usaf-vet]

17. Maybe some day they will catch up to him on his hidden sanctuary.

I know he's dead.

But he can't hide forever.

[CaptYossarian]

22. Leave him in his sanctuary.

It's too hot down there to get him.

[Polybius]

26. He would have gotten at least that

But he didn't hang around long enough to go to trial.

[rickyhall]

10. Guess who the next pardoned criminal will be?

I think they're buying pardons at PardonsRUs.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. too bad that the thing in the white house cant join him.

[Jose Garcia]

12. Get ready for the "Weinstein didn't kill himself" memes

[Bengus81]

13. Quick Trump....pardon him and give him the Freedom Medal

[llmart]

15. Terrific!

Too bad the sexual predator in the White House doesn't get the same.

[NurseJackie]

18. By the time he gets out...

... he'll be 90 years old. If he lives that long.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. He'll probably die in prison

[Grokenstein]

20. Oh noes, Harvey is really really really concerned, y'all.

The guy who just had a trial with full legal representation that was allowed to present and cross-examine witnesses is crying about "due process."

Link to tweet

Look, I get the stage-prop walker. I totally get that. But what's with the refusal to shave? How is looking like Hollywood's wealthiest drunk help his case?

[christx30]

24. Good. One down, hundreds to go. n/t