Harvey Weinstein limps into Manhattan courtroom ahead of long-anticipated sex assault trial
Source: NY Daily News
A frail Harvey Weinstein arrived at Manhattan Criminal Court Monday leaning on a walker and needing help getting up stairs. The perv producer was pale and flanked by his legal team as roughly 20 protesters holding signs reading Believe Survivors and Justice for Survivors" watched him shuffle into the courthouse.
Thank god your mother is not here to see this, one protester hollered at Weinstein, who was forced to use the walker after undergoing back surgery recently, according to his lawyers.
The disgraced film producer ignored questions from dozens of reporters as he shuffled toward Justice James Burkes 13th-floor courtroom for last-minute legal arguments ahead of Tuesdays kickoff to a trial expected to last as long as eight weeks and bring in journalists and film stars from all over the world.
His attorney asked the judge to sequester the jury for the entire trial ― a request Judge Burke immediately denied.
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GMAFB! Using a walker all of a sudden?
OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)Seeing as to how well it worked out there, what's the point.
George II
(67,782 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)For those using a walker. No big deal.
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GemDigger
(4,305 posts)I wonder how long he practiced that look.
KPN
(15,647 posts)Lulu KC
(2,572 posts)This looks like the standard hospital-issue one.
Trivia.
Nicely distracting from the world being on fire and nuclear holocaust at our door.
diva77
(7,652 posts)sarge43
(28,942 posts)Far more efficient ones available - ones with wheels and hand brakes, attached baskets, legs that can be sized to the person's height, etc. If I can afford one, he sure can.
My crap detector whispers stage prop.
Lulu KC
(2,572 posts)From the Washington Post, Monica Hesse:
"You can easily picture Weinstein, a man of exorbitant financial resources, employing hair and makeup artists to give him the appearance of good health. He might wear a discreet back brace underneath his formal wear. He might be leaning on a custom, elegant cane he might require a chic black walker. This Harvey Weinstein would be in an identical medical situation. But in that parallel universe, he presumably would want to tell a different story about himself, one in which he could still swan through a room, glad-handing Reese Witherspoon and Martin Scorsese a mogul of a certain age, but still a mogul, still powerful. Can you for one second imagine him showing up with neon tennis balls?"
(There's more and it's pretty interesting. Still, I have to note that I'm really paying too much attention to this when the rest of the news is so much more significant this week!)
sarge43
(28,942 posts)mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)frail and feeble on their way onto court. If I was a suspicious person, I'd think they are trying to play a pity me card. I'd think they were trying to visually influence the jurors to think an old feeble man couldn't possibly do the things he is on trial for.
jmbar2
(4,902 posts)marble falls
(57,145 posts)BKDem
(1,733 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)sarge43
(28,942 posts)jmbar2
(4,902 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)LeftInTX
(25,496 posts)Nothing like a billionaire going to court with a Walgreens/WalMart walker with tennis balls.
I got mine at Walgreens. I bought it almost 20 years ago, I use it now an then, mainly as a balance bar for exercise. Kinda like crutches. If you have them you keep them because they come in handy now and then.
mucifer
(23,558 posts)So it's even more proof of BS
Javaman
(62,532 posts)llmart
(15,548 posts)Isn't this scumbag about 67 years old? I'm older than that.
Could he be any more transparent?
Hope he rots in a prison cell.
RockRaven
(14,985 posts)walking around a grocery store with upright posture taken that same week? I seem to remember something like that happening.
LiberalFighter
(51,020 posts)marble falls
(57,145 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)the exact response - the Oscar goes to :
FarPoint
(12,426 posts)He is " maximizing" any sense of disability....
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Have them wheel you in on a bed. Thats the real ticket.
marble falls
(57,145 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)... bungie-corded to a refrigerator dolly. (Quid pro quo, Clarice)
Try him, lock him in a cell, leave him to rot.
Hassler
(3,384 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Other than that, everything seems pitiful.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Mob Boss Gigante who was too sick and "crazy" to be tried. Used to walk around NYC streets in a bathrobe as his trial drew near.
Paladin
(28,269 posts)Weinstein's walker and trump's assassination of the Iranian military bigshot have the same corrupt purpose. No one should be fooled.
captain jack
(316 posts)Yeehah
(4,589 posts)Ain't gonna work, CREEP!