Harvey Weinstein verdict: Disgraced Hollywood mogul found guilty of rape, sexual assault but not battery

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault but acquitted of a count of sexual battery after the trial against him concluded on Monday in Los Angeles. 

The trial had gone on for three years and the jury of four women and eight men deliberated for nine days before the verdict came out. They were hung on three other counts against him. The verdict came nearly three years after Weinstein was convicted of a slew of sex crimes in another trial in New York City.

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In February 2020, he was found guilty of two felonies third-degree rape and criminal sexual act in the first degree and the 70-year-old is serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, currently. He had pleaded not guilty in both trials and denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex.

The victims in the Los Angeles trial were four women who identified in the courtroom as Jane Does. He was only found guilty of three counts related to the accuser known as Jane Doe 1, which were forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object.

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“Harvey Weinstein forever destroyed a part of me that night in 2013. I will never get that back. The criminal trial was brutal. Weinstein’s lawyers put me through hell on the witness stand. But I knew I had to see this through to the end, and I did,” Jane Doe 1 said in a statement.

As for Jane Doe 2, the jury found that Weinstein was not guilty of sexual battery by restraint. The jury was unable to reach a verdict regarding the three other sexual assault counts involving women identified in the case as Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4.