{"id":43135,"date":"2018-05-30T00:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/30\/weinstein-lawyers-fear-bad-pr-could-taint-jury-in-sexual-assault-trial\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T00:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T22:44:35","slug":"weinstein-lawyers-fear-bad-pr-could-taint-jury-in-sexual-assault-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=43135","title":{"rendered":"Weinstein lawyers fear &#039;bad PR&#039; could taint jury in sexual assault trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors reportedly plan to call as many of Weinstein\u2019s accusers to testify as possible A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein has expressed concern that potential jurors could be tainted by the wave of bad publicity about the former film producer, who has been arrested and is facing sexual criminal charges involving two women.Weinstein\u2019s attorney Benjamin Brafman, who met behind closed doors with prosecutors and a New York judge on Tuesday morning, said he\u2019d told the judge he was worried about the impact of bad PR on potential jurors following his client\u2019s arrest last week. But he also warned he was limited in what he could say publicly because a transcript of the meeting was sealed. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/may\/29\/harvey-weinstein-trial-lawyers-fear-bad-publicity\" target=\"_blank\">Weinstein lawyers fear &#039;bad PR&#039; could taint jury in sexual assault trial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors reportedly plan to call as many of Weinstein\u2019s accusers to testify as possible A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein has expressed concern that potential jurors could be tainted by the wave of bad publicity about the former film producer, who has been arrested and is facing sexual criminal charges involving [&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-43135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43135","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=43135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}