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Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years

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Cwenthryth · 11/03/2020 15:15

YES!

Just announced this in the office as it flashed up on my phone. Everyone cheered.

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Datun · 11/03/2020 18:16

His contribution to the film industry? His fucking contribution? Ruining actresses careers and only allowing them to flourish if they suck his dick?

He has single-handedly deprived of the fucking film industry of any number of amazing women.

The sheer blindness of claiming that his glittering life, relentlessly punctuated by sex offending, should be any kind of mitigation???

It's breathtaking how little women mean to these awful men.

LangClegsOpinionIsNoted · 11/03/2020 18:09

Let’s hope they don’t give him the opportunity to pull a Polanski though! Is he being held in custody?

I think he was already in Rikers, so he should have gone straight back there.

Notredamn · 11/03/2020 18:08

Personally I would not like to see anyone die in prison

You wish he'd received a shorter sentence?

Other opinions are available

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LangClegsOpinionIsNoted · 11/03/2020 18:08

Yeah I don't care if he dies in prison either. I'd prefer it to be in at least a decade's time though.

littlbrowndog · 11/03/2020 17:54

💪👏

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 11/03/2020 17:51

Good news. I'm sorry that the sickening statute of limitations, which thankfully doesn't apply in the UK, prevented Annabella Sciorra from personally getting the justice she so much deserves. But I hope this sentence has helped her too.

minou123 · 11/03/2020 17:50

I am so pleased the women have got the justice they deserved. 20 years is a brilliant.

I read the victim impact statements and they are so strong

AutumnRose1 · 11/03/2020 17:27

Btw I’m quite happy for this type to die in prison, what’s with the sympathy?!

AutumnRose1 · 11/03/2020 17:27

Does this actually mean 23 years, as it’s the US, does anyone know?

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 11/03/2020 17:25

His contribution to the film industry

That and other comments. Don't they just illustrate the shock and deeply held belief that he was supposed to get off the charges? That men don't get hold to account. That boys will be boys. That he was too big to fail. An unwavering belief that convictions are not meant to happen like this.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 11/03/2020 17:17

Justice finally done.

Graphista · 11/03/2020 17:15

“It's testimony to how shit rape trials and sentencing usually are that we're all so surprised and thrilled by this, isn't it?” Absolutely!

It is great news - but it shouldn’t be. It should be the norm.

US news says he has more trials pending?

Let’s hope they don’t give him the opportunity to pull a Polanski though! Is he being held in custody? I’ve looked but can’t find an answer to that online

Is he going straight to rikers?

WhatKatyDidNot · 11/03/2020 16:59

Personally I would not like to see anyone die in prison.

Me either. But an exemplar sentence was desperately needed and it is difficult to summon up much personal sympathy for this vile man.

Mockerswithnoknockers · 11/03/2020 16:45

Personally I would not like to see anyone die in prison.

Other opinions are available.

PerkingFaintly · 11/03/2020 16:44

Well. That's a pleasant surprise.

teawamutu · 11/03/2020 16:38

Fucking brilliant. Hope he dies in prison (at the end of his long sentence).

Notredamn · 11/03/2020 16:32

He'll be dead before he's out. Good.

Mockerswithnoknockers · 11/03/2020 16:32

And he's upgraded from a walkframe to a wheelchair.

It'll be the full Stephen Hawking with robovoice for California.

SarahTancredi · 11/03/2020 16:31

Good

A real surprise though. I mean hes rich famous and white ...

Rot in jail creep

deydododatdodontdeydo · 11/03/2020 16:31

Excellent news. He may get more after his next trial.
Hope he doesn't get off on some appeal technicality.

Thisismytimetoshine · 11/03/2020 16:30

River’s Island is to close by 2026?

LynnSchmob · 11/03/2020 16:28

Wow. Wasn’t expecting that.

LangClegTheBeardedVulture · 11/03/2020 16:28

He's going to Riker's Island. It's.... not nice.

ErrolTheDragon · 11/03/2020 16:27

The defence lawyers claimed that even the 5 year minimum sentence 'would be a lifetime for him'.

Only because he got away with his vile behaviour for so long.Hmm he's had a much longer life out of jail than he should have done.

theflushedzebra · 11/03/2020 16:19

I never thought he'd get that long! He's disgusting.

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