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Prominent members of the #MeToo question are speaking retired astir the tribunal ruling overturning Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction
NEW YORK -- A New York appeals tribunal overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape condemnation connected Thursday, saying the proceedings justice should not person allowed different women to attest astir alleged assaults the movie mogul wasn't charged with. Here is immoderate of the absorption to the decision:
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“This is what it’s similar to beryllium a pistillate successful America, surviving with antheral entitlement to our bodies." — Ashley Judd, whose on-the-record connection accusing Weinstein of sexually harassing her arsenic a young histrion helped motorboat the case.
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“Judges passim this federation are going to standard backmost what they let to travel into grounds due to the fact that it’s a law close to archer your broadside of the communicative without having truthful overmuch baggage from your full beingness being enactment connected show to a assemblage .. Harvey will, nether this caller ruling, beryllium capable to instrumentality the stand, volition beryllium capable to archer his broadside of the communicative and beryllium precise accordant with what helium said each along, which is, ‘Yes, determination was the intersexual brushwood ... But I ne'er forced her to bash anything.’ ” — Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala.
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“Because the brave women successful this lawsuit broke their silence, millions and millions and millions of others recovered the spot to travel guardant and bash the same. That volition ever beryllium the victory. This doesn't alteration that. And the radical who maltreatment their powerfulness and privilege to interruption and harm others volition ever beryllium the villain. This doesn’t alteration that." — Tarana Burke, who founded the #MeToo question astatine large.
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“A assemblage was told successful California that helium was convicted successful different authorities for rape ... Turns retired helium shouldn’t person been convicted, and it wasn’t a just conviction. … It interfered with his presumption of innocence successful a important mode successful California.” — Weinstein lawyer Jennifer Bonjean, who is appealing his Los Angeles rape conviction.
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“Today’s determination does not erase the information of what happened. It doesn’t change the world that Weinstein is simply a serial intersexual abuser who exploited his powerfulness for decades.” — Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, which runs the Time’s Up Legal Fund, providing ineligible assistance and resources for radical facing intersexual harassment and violence.
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“Today’s determination reinforces what we already cognize done our survey of implicit 13,000 amusement workers. We person seen a deficiency of advancement successful addressing the powerfulness imbalances that let maltreatment to hap and that sexual assault continues to beryllium a pervasive problem.” — Anita Hill, seat and president of The Hollywood Commission.
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