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I'M MAURICE DuBOIS.
NOW ON CBS2 AND STREAMING
ON CBSN NEW YORK WE ARE GOING
TO BEGIN WITH THE DEFINING
MOMENT IN THE "ME TOO"
MOVEMENT.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN NOW SITS IN
A JAIL TONIGHT CONVICTED OF
FELONY SEX CRIMES.
AFTER FIVE DAYS OF
DELIBERATIONS THE JURY FOUND
WEINSTEIN GUILTY OF THIRD-
DEGREE RAPE AND CRIMINAL SEXUAL
ACTS BUT ACQUITTED HIM OF THREE
OTHER COUNTS INCLUDING THE MOST
SERIOUS, PREDATORY SEXUAL
ASSAULT.
HE SHOWED LITTLE EMOTION WHEN
THE VERDICT WAS READ BUT SEEMED
STUNNED WHEN HE WAS LED OUT OF
THE COURTROOM IN HANDCUFFS.
HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE THE
WALKER HE'S BEEN USING SINCE
THE TRIAL BEGAN.
IT WAS WHEELED OUT OF THE
COURTROOM AFTER HE WAS TAKEN
AWAY.
ALICE GAINER HAS BEEN
COVERING THE TRIAL SINCE THE
BEGINNING AND WAS IN THE
COURTROOM AS WELL WHEN THE
VERDICT WAS READ.
THE PACKED COURTROOM WAS
MOSTLY SILENT AS THE VERDICT
WAS READ.
15 COURT OFFICERS LINED THE
PERIMETER WITH THREE OF THEM
SURROUNDING WEINSTEIN SO IT WAS
HARD TO SEE HIS EXACT REACTION
AT THAT MOMENT.
NOW, AFTER THE VERDICT WAS
READ, IT REMAINED SILENT AS THE
WORDS WERE DIGESTED BY ALL.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN NOW A
CONVICTED RAPIST.
IF HARVEY WEINSTEIN WAS NERVOUS
ABOUT A VERDICT TODAY, HE
DIDN'T SHOW IT THIS MORNING.
MR. WEINSTEIN, DID YOU GET
ANY SLEEP THIS WEEKEND?
Reporter: ABOUT TWO HOURS
LATER, HE WOULD BE PUT INTO
HANDCUFFS, CARTED OFF TO RIKERS
ISLAND.
WE THE JURY HAVE REACHED A
VERDICT READ THE NOTE TO THE
JUDGE AROUND 11:30 A.M., NOT
GUILTY OF THE MOST SERIOUS
CHARGE AGAINST HIM, PREDATORY
SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND NOT GUILTY
OF RAPE IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
BUT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF
CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACT IN THE
FIRST DEGREE AND RAPE IN THE
THIRD DEGREE.
HE DIDN'T CRY, HE DIDN'T
BREAK DOWN.
HE WASN'T SOBBING.
HE WAS MORE IN A STATE OF
DISBELIEF.
HE SAID -- AND HE KEPT
REPEATING BUT I'M INNOCENT.
WEINSTEIN IS A VICIOUS
SERIAL SEXUAL PREDATOR WHO USED
HIS POWER TO THREATEN, RAPE,
ASSAULT, TRICK, HUMILIATE AND
SILENCE HIS VICTIMS.
WOMEN WERE BELIEVED.
Reporter: GLORIA ALLRED
REPRESENTS TWO OF THE THREE
WOMEN THE CHARGES WERE BASED
AROUND.
THIS IS THE AGE OF
EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN AND YOU
CANNOT INTIMIDATE THEM ANYMORE.
Reporter: THE JURY'S VERDICT
SHOWS THAT THEY BELIEVED THE
TESTIMONY OF MIMI HALEYI AND
JESSICA MANN BUT HAD DOUBTS
ABOUT SCIORRA.
FORCING A SEX ACT ON MIMI
HALEYI IN 2006 AT HIS
APARTMENT.
HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF ONE OF
THE RAPE CHARGES, RAPE IN THE
THIRD DEGREE FORE THE ATTACK ON
JESSICA MANN IN 2013 AT A
MANHATTAN HOTEL BUT NOT GUILTY
OF RAPE IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
HE WAS ALSO FOUND NOT GUILTY OF
TWO COUNTS OF PREDATORY SEXUAL
ASSAULT.
ANNABELLA SCIORRA ALLEGES
WEINSTEIN RAPED HER IN THE
EARLY '90s AFTER FORCING HIS
WAY INTO HER GRAMERCY PARK
APARTMENT.
THE STATUTES FOR LIMITATIONS
FOR RAPE CHARGE HAD RUN OUT BUT
THE D.A.'S OFFICE WAS ABLE TO
USE HER ALLEGATION TOGETHER
WITH HAILEYI AND MANN'S CRIME
TO SHOW A PATTERN.
ON FRIDAY THE JURY HINTED THEY
MIGHT BE HUNG ON THE PREDATORY
SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGE SENDING A
NOTE READING WE THE JURY
REQUEST TO UNDERSTAND IF WE CAN
BE HUNG ON ONE AND/OR THREE BUT
UNANIMOUS ON THE OTHERS.
BUT TODAY THE JURY CAME TO A
UNANIMOUS DECISION.
I CAN'T LOOK BEHIND THE
JURY'S VERDICT OR HOW THEY
ARRIVED AT THAT.
WE HAVE TO RESPECT THAT
PROCESS.
BUT BY NO MEANS IS IT A
STATEMENT AGAINST MISS SCIORRA
OR AGAINST ANYTHING THAT SHE
SAID IN COURT.
Reporter: MOST JURORS WERE
ESCORTED OUT OF THE COURTHOUSE
AND DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING.
WE CAUGHT UP WITH THE FOREMAN
WHO SAID HE ISN'T READY TO TALK
ABOUT HOW THEY REACHED THIS
VERDICT JUST YET.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S WALKER, A
CONTROVERSY ALL ITS OWN, WAS
WHEELED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME
WITHOUT THE DISGRACED MOVIE
MOGUL BEHIND IT.
HIS HANDS WHICH ONCE GRIPPED IT
SO FIRMLY FOR SUPPORT NOW
CUFFED IN THE FRONT OF HIS
BODY.
SOON TO BE HOLDING ONTO THE
BARS IN FRONT OF HIM.
AND WEINSTEIN WILL BE IN THE
INFIRMARY AT RIKERS SINCE THE
DEFENSE ARGUED HE'S BEEN UNDER
THE CARE OF FIVE DOCTORS AND
HAD AN UNSUCCESSFUL BACK
SURGERY.
SENTENCING WILL BE MARCH 11th.
HE'S FACING UP TO 25 YEARS