NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Both Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby have been convicted of sexual assault and have been critical of the judicial system, so it comes as no surprise that Cosby's spokesman slammed a jury's decision to convict Weinstein on two counts.
"This is not shocking because these jurors were not sequestered, which gave them access to media coverage and the sentiments of public opinion," Andrew Wyatt said in a statement following Weinstein's conviction. "There’s no way you would have anyone believe that Mr. Weinstein was going to receive a fair and impartial trial. Also, this judge showed that he wanted a conviction by sending the jurors back to deliberate, after they were hung on many of the counts."
Wyatt continued, "Here’s the question that should haunt all Americans, especially wealthy and famous men...Where do we go in this country to find fairness and impartiality in the judicial system; and where do we go in this country to find Due Process? Lastly, if the #metoo movement isn’t just about Becky [White women>, I would challenge #metoo and ask them to go back 400+ years and tarnish the names of those oppressors that raped slaves. This is a very sad day in the American Judicial System."
A jury of seven men and five women took five days to find Weinstein guilty of raping an aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulting production assistant Mimi Haleyi at his apartment in 2006 by forcibly performing oral sex on her.
As for Cosby, he is serving three to 10 years in a state prison near Philadelphia after a jury in 2018 convicted him of sexually assaulting a Temple University employee in 2004.