{"id":127935,"date":"2020-01-16T01:12:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/16\/weinstein-tries-to-move-trial-out-of-new-york-city-claiming-deluge-of-bad-press\/"},"modified":"2020-01-16T01:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T00:12:27","slug":"weinstein-tries-to-move-trial-out-of-new-york-city-claiming-deluge-of-bad-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=127935","title":{"rendered":"Weinstein tries to move trial out of New York City, claiming &#039;deluge&#039; of bad press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tactic, though likely to fail, is an indication of the aggressive approach Weinstein\u2019s defense team is takingHarvey Weinstein, the fallen movie mogul facing possible life imprisonment for an alleged history of sexual crimes, is making a renewed attempt to have his trial moved out of New York City on grounds that the opening phase of the proceedings have been sullied by a \u201cdeluge\u201d of negative press reporting.Weinstein\u2019s legal team produced an 87-page motion on Wednesday that called on the judge at the New York state supreme court in Manhattan to shift the location to upstate New York or down Long Island. The motion argues that the change of court would avoid the \u201ccarnival-like atmosphere\u201d that it complains has tainted the view of potential jurors since the trial began on 6 January. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/jan\/15\/harvey-weinstein-trial-new-york-city-move\" target=\"_blank\">Weinstein tries to move trial out of New York City, claiming &#039;deluge&#039; of bad press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tactic, though likely to fail, is an indication of the aggressive approach Weinstein\u2019s defense team is takingHarvey Weinstein, the fallen movie mogul facing possible life imprisonment for an alleged history of sexual crimes, is making a renewed attempt to have his trial moved out of New York City on grounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}