''Jury of peers' is a surreal phrase when the defendant is a millionaire tycoon accused of assaulting 80-plus women — he’s currently facing five counts of rape or predatory sexual assault involving two women — but the legal system will do its best.'
All last week and moving on to this one, potential jurors have filed into a Manhattan courtroom, batches of 120 at a time, to determine whether they might be fit to judge Harvey Weinstein.
There are two issues here: The first is whether an assault victim feels emotionally prepared to serve on a jury. The second is whether she or he can be “fair.” But, bizarrely, some people now appear to see alleged victims of sexual assault as the ones starting the fires. Legal experts inundated cable news this week with speculation that Weinstein’s attorneys should look out for “secret #MeToo activists,” as if #MeToo were a radical ideology
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