Weinstein switched legal teams for this retrial, but his new attorneys are echoing their predecessors’ themes
Prosecutors once again portrayed Harvey Weinstein as a onetime Hollywood power player who used his sway as a tool of sexual assault, painting a now-familiar picture Tuesday at a rape retrial nearly eight years after the former movie tycoon’s arrest.
“This case will come down to power, to control and to manipulation,” said Candace White, the Manhattan assistant district attorney, to jurors as opening statements began in the bellwether #MeToo case, with Alvin Bragg, the district attorney, watching from the audience.
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