Jury resumes deliberations in Harvey Weinstein sex crimes retrial
A Manhattan jury resumed deliberations on Friday in Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes retrial after ending its first day without reaching a verdict in a case that encapsulated the #MeToo movement.
The panel, which was handed the case on Thursday morning, has requested to hear a readback of some testimony from two of Weinstein's accusers, as well as to see medical records from one of those women.
The jury of seven women and five men is considering two counts of criminal sex act and one count of rape against the 73-year-old Oscar-winning movie producer, with the criminal sex act charges the higher-degree felonies.
Harvey Weinstein has denied all the charges against him (Jefferson Siegel /The New York Times via AP, Pool/PA)
Weinstein has pleaded not guilty.
Sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein propelled the #MeToo movement in 2017.
He was eventually convicted of sex crimes in New York and California, but the New York conviction was overturned last year, leading to the retrial before a new jury and a different judge.
Jurors heard more than five weeks of evidence, including lengthy testimony from three accusers.
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The Irish Sun
2 hours ago
- The Irish Sun
Killer, 34, murdered and dismembered student, 19, on first date after ‘watching Netflix series showing mutilation'
A 34-YEAR-OLD man murdered and dismembered a college student, 19, on the first date after allegedly watching a Netflix series showing mutilation. Maxwell Anderson was convicted of homicide and dismembering a corpse on Friday for the heinous murder of Sade Robinson last year. 10 Sade was brutally murdered Credit: FB/Sade Robinson 10 Sade was on a first date with Anderson Credit: FB/sade robinson 10 Maxwell Anderson is led into the courtroom for his initial appearance in April 2024 Credit: AP The two had met at a bar and spent the rest of their evening getting dinner and drinks at the Twisted Fisherman in Milwaukee. Teen Sade then went back to Anderson's apartment where, at one point in the night, the alleged killer put on Netflix show Love, Death & Robots . One episode of the series called "The Drowned Giant" portrays the horrific mutilation of a human body on the beach. In a chilling similarity, prosecutors have claimed that monster Anderson dismembered Sade's body on a beach in Wisconsin overlooking Lake Michigan. Juror Melissa Blascoe told the "I physically felt like I was gonna throw up at that point. I know a lot of people were shaking and crying." Anderson was also charged with arson and hiding a corpse in connection with Sade's death. He was found guilty on all counts. Most read in The US Sun Cops said it's believed Anderson spread the 19-year-old's remains across Milwaukee County and burned her car in an attempt to hide key evidence. Surveillance footage showed Sade's car leaving Anderson's apartment in the early hours of April 2. Eerie new video shows 'killer' dad Travis Decker as cops fear 'expert' soldier won't be caught for MONTHS after murders It then arrived at the beach along the shores of Lake Michigan. When Sade didn't turn up for work the next day, concern was sparked on her whereabouts. The student's manager Justin Romano told CNN that she was "very outgoing, she would talk to everybody here." He added: "She was always there to lighten the mood." After Sade hadn't showed up for her shift - which "wasn't like her at all" - Justin added: "We kind of knew something was up. "We had been calling her all day." Anderson is thought to have dismembered Sade and set her car alight behind an abandoned building. He then took a bus back to is apartment. 10 Maxwell Anderson, right, with his defense attorney Anthony Cotton, left Credit: AP 10 The booking photo of Maxwell Anderson is seen as part of state exhibit in the trial of Anderson, center Credit: AP 10 A photo of the studio apartment of Sade Robinson was presented as part of the state's exhibit in the trial of Maxwell Anderson Credit: AP 10 Sade's grieving mom Sheena Scarbrough Credit: WISN 12 ABC Despite "extreme fire damage" to Sade's car, cops where able to identify the outfit the 19-year-old had been wearing on the night of the date alongside part of an iPhone consistent with hers, CNN reports. Cops had been called to Warnimont Park after a human leg was horrifically discovered, which was later identified as belonging to Sade. Anderson had planned to kill the student weeks before her death, a "confidential informant" claimed, Anderson's attorney Tony Cotton argued that the prosecution showed no evidence of his intention to kill Sade. The attorney also raised how Anderson didn't try to hide his identity as he travelled on public transport home and was also in clean clothes despite having allegedly dismembered Sade's body in a muddy location. Jurors reached their verdict in one hour on the ninth day of trial. Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Ian Vance-Curzan said: "While we are satisfied with this verdict, our hearts go out to the family of Sade Robinson." And Milwaukee County Sheriff's Det. JoAnn Donner - who had spent months working on the heartbreaking case - said: "My heart goes out to the family and [Sade's] friends and really, the community at large. "It's everyone's come together, and it's really hard to take that step back as a law enforcement officer and not get that really emotionally involved during the case. "I will admit that I did go back to my office after the verdict, and I had a good cry because I finally got to have that emotion. It does affect us too." Read more on the Irish Sun And Sade's grieving mom Sheena Scarbrough said in a GoFundMe set up for her daughter's memorial service that she was a "loving daughter, a cherished sister, and a dear friend to many". Anderson is to be sentenced on August 15, where he faces a mandatory life sentence in prison. 10 Prosecutor Ian Vance-Curzan holds up a jacket that had DNA in sections of the jacket from Maxwell Anderson and Sade Robinson while questioning state witness Sharon Polakowski Credit: AP 10 Sharon Polakowski, forensic scientist, senior DNA Analysis Unit from the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory Milwaukee, testifies for the state on DNA found on clothing of Maxwell Anderson Credit: AP 10 Maxwell Anderson, center, responds to questions from Circuit Court Judge Laura Crivello after the state and defense both rest during his trial Credit: AP
Sunday World
3 hours ago
- Sunday World
Former H block boss suspects collusion in jail slaying of loyalist thug
'There are still too many coincidences and unanswered questions hanging over Billy Wright's killing in the Maze' PACEMAKER BFST 11-06-02: Mark Fulton pictured (left)in 1996 who was found dead today in his prison cell. He is pictured with his close friend and associate of Former LVF leader Billy Wright. Christopher McWilliams (foreground), one of the killers of Loyalist leader Billy Wright, walks free from Magilligan Prison in Co Londonderry Friday October 20, 2000. McWilliams, who shot the notorious Loyalist Volunteer Force leader on December 27, 1997, today denied any British Government collusion in the murder. See PA story ULSTER Wright. PA Photo/Belfast Telegraph: Ian Trevithick. William McKee says he was thrown to the wolves as British security services allowed the murder of loyalist killer Billy Wright on his watch. McKee was at his desk as governor of the Maze Prison on December 27, 1997, the day the INLA claimed their biggest scalp of the Troubles. It was the final weeks and months of negotiations that would lead to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement and Wright was seen as one of the remaining obstacles to a settlement. Vehemently opposed to the peace process, he stayed at the head of his LVF sectarian killing machine despite being behind bars, orchestrating and ordering attacks with the help of his trusted second in command, Mark 'Swinger' Fulton. William McKee News in 90 Seconds - 7th June So when Christopher 'Crip' McWilliams, John Kenneway and John 'Sonny' Glennon intercepted Wright as he made his way from his cell in the Maze to a visit from his girlfriend, they removed one of the biggest obstacles to peace. Armed with a pistol smuggled into what was supposed to be the most secure prison in Europe, the trio climbed over the prison roof and shot him inside the prison transport van. In October 1998 they were convicted of murder and possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life. They were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder and 20 years on the firearms offence. Within two years they were free men, under the terms of the peace accord. It was a day that was to leave a permanent scar on the mind and soul of McKee. As the man in charge, he found himself thrust into the spotlight. He was to discover he may have been an unwitting pawn in a bigger game, played out by MI5 in collusion with the INLA. Collusion Inside The Maze is the title of McKee's newly published book, a novel that teases out the conspiracy theories that still surround the death of one of the most notorious and dangerous killers in the history of the conflict. 'It's a 'what if' book,' McKee told the Sunday World. 'I have to be careful, I'm still covered by the Official Secrets Act — as far as the facts are concerned, I can only stick to what is in the public domain, but what happened has never sat well with me. There are too many coincidences and unanswered questions.' Billy Wright He said his decision to address those questions in the form of a novel is an attempt to highlight certain issues, including the role of the security services and why he as governor was never informed of intelligence that pointed to a planned attack on Wright. 'What is fact is that during a bugged INLA meeting on the Antrim Road, a plan to assassinate 'King Rat' Wright was discussed. That meeting was 12 days before Wright was killed. 'When Wright was transferred from Maghaberry, so were Glennon and McWilliams. I was never told that there was clear intelligence Wright was going to be killed. Did they just let it happen? 'It has festered with me for a long time. Wright was a very bad man — he had been linked to 20 sectarian murders — but even given that, he should have been moved out of the Maze.' Republicans were threatening to take retaliatory action against Wright's LVF, which would have put the entire peace process at the risk of collapse. McKee said he was in his office when he got the call that there had been a shooting in H Block 6. 'You just know what to do, it's not a question of 'oh my God what next?' Your training takes over — you know what to do. 'People always asked me to tell the true story, but I don't know what the true story is, so I decided to write a thriller that was loosely based on the murder, giving possibilities that may account for state collusion,' he said. The coffin of Billy Wright. Photo: CRISPIN RODWELL Much of what is in the book is drawn from his imagination but unmistakably grounded in real events. 'I used Billy Wright's name but, under the Official Secrets Act, I couldn't use anything that was not in the public domain. 'The killing of Wright is a significant part of the book, but there are other incidents as well, including ones connected to the IRA's Nutting Squad, Stakeknife and the Disappeared.' He said he has shared the book with a number of former combatants who have given it their seal of approval on what was a decisive moment in our history. 'One combatant told me, 'Mate, that's not a novel, that's a true story'. I hope it goes some way to shedding some light on what may or may not have happened.' Billy McKee joined the Prison Service as a 22-year-old never intending it to be his career, but he quickly rose through the ranks, eventually finding himself governor at Maghaberry and the Maze. At the height of the Troubles the job was fraught with risk. He had to move house three times at short notice because of death threats. 'I'd get a call in the middle of the night from the security services telling me, 'Get out of the house now, they're on their way to kill you'. The police couldn't come in case it compromised an informant or agent. The government would move us to another house until it happened again.' The pressure was too much for his marriage, which collapsed. His mental health suffered. He recalls leaving Maghaberry in the back of an ambulance believing he had suffered a heart attack. It wasn't but it was a panic attack brought on by the pressures of dealing with a failing marriage, death threats and being head of one of the most notorious prisons in Europe. After a near 30-year career in the Prison Service, he retired on medical grounds but to this day struggles with PTSD. 'I've had 66 counselling sessions learning to live with what I call my 'black cloud' — some days it's there some days it's not. When I was in the Prison Service I was known as Billy, since I left I introduce myself as William, I'm trying to leave that person behind. 'Revisiting the Wright murder has been cathartic because as I've said the circumstances have festered with me for years.' These days William spends much of his time talking to youth groups and often to former combatants. 'It helps me, but I also think it helps young people and even those who went through it all in this country to listen to someone who stared it in the face.'
Irish Examiner
4 hours ago
- Irish Examiner
Deadly Russian attack hits eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
Russian attacks targeting the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv have killed at least four people and wounded more than two dozen others, officials said. The first wave on Ukraine's second-largest city was a large Russian drone-and-missile attack in the early hours. It killed at least three people and wounded 21 others, according to local officials. I received a report from our team on their visit and meetings in the United States. Defense support for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia, diplomatic prospects, as well as the defense of freedom and countering Russian disinformation. We gave our partners a detailed overview of… — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 6, 2025 In the afternoon, Russia dropped aerial bombs on the city centre, killing at least one person and wounding five more, Kharkiv's mayor said. The warring sides also accused each other of trying to sabotage a planned prisoner exchange, nearly a week after Kyiv embarrassed the Kremlin with a surprise drone attack on military airfields deep inside Russia. Saturday's barrage – the latest in near daily widescale attacks on Ukraine – included aerial glide bombs that have become part of a fierce Russian onslaught in the all-out war, which began on February 24 2022. Ukraine's air force said that Russia struck with 215 missiles and drones overnight, and Ukrainian air defences shot down 87 drones and seven missiles. Russian strikes hit a residential building in Kharkiv (AP) Several other areas in Ukraine were also hit, including the regions of Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and the city of Ternopil, Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said in an X post. 'To put an end to Russia's killing and destruction, more pressure on Moscow is required, as are more steps to strengthen Ukraine,' he said. The Russian defence ministry said its forces carried out a night-time strike on Ukrainian military targets, including ammunition depots, drone assembly workshops, and weaponry repair stations. There was no comment from Moscow on the reports of casualties in Kharkiv. Kharkiv's mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said that the strikes also damaged 18 apartment buildings and 13 private homes. Mr Terekhov said that it was 'the most powerful attack' on the city since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. At least four people were killed (AP) Kharkiv's regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov, said the morning's attacks saw two districts in the city struck with three missiles, five aerial glide bombs and 48 drones. Among the wounded were two children, a baby boy and a 14-year-old girl, he added. Six people are believed to be trapped under the rubble of an industrial facility in Kharkiv's Kyiv district, The Kharkiv prosecutor's office said in a statement on Telegram. Contact with those trapped was lost and rescue attempts have been ongoing since early afternoon, it said, without naming the facility. On Saturday afternoon, Russian aerial bombs struck Kharkiv again, killing at least one person and wounding five others, the mayor said. Today, rescue and emergency operations continued all day across various regions and cities of our country. Over 400 drones, more than 40 missiles were launched by the Russians. 80 people were injured, and some may still be under the debris. And unfortunately, not everyone in the… — Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 6, 2025 The morning strikes also wounded two people in the Dnipropetrovsk province further south, according to local governor Serhii Lysak. Meanwhile, Russia's defence ministry said that its forces shot down 36 Ukrainian drones overnight, over the country's south and west, including near the capital. Drone debris wounded two civilians in the suburbs of Moscow, governor Andrei Vorobyov reported. A US-led diplomatic push for a settlement has brought two rounds of direct peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine, though the negotiations delivered no significant breakthroughs. But both sides remain far apart on their terms for an end to the fighting.
