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NEW YORK – Former Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein was
found guilty by a Manhattan jury Monday of two of five charges
relating to sexual assaults and faces as many as 25 years in
prison.

He was found guilty of a criminal sex act for assaulting
production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 and
third-degree rape of a woman in 2013. The jury found him not
guilty on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault,
which could have resulted in a life sentence. He was ordered to
jail by the judge immediately after the conviction.

The verdict followed weeks of often harrowing and excruciatingly
graphic testimony from a string of accusers who told of rapes,
forced oral sex, groping, masturbation, lewd propositions and
that's-Hollywood excuses from Weinstein about how the casting
couch works.

The jury of seven men and five women handed down the verdict on
Monday after five days of deliberating.

Weinstein has maintained any sexual encounters were consensual.
Sentencing was set for March 11.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/harvey-weinstein-found- guilty-of-sex-assault-could-face-decades-in-prison

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