Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer calls for case to be thrown out
The defence says witnesses are lying.
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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer has said his sexual assault case has devolved into a mess of lying witnesses and hidden evidence and should be thrown out.
In a court filing on Thursday, lawyer Benjamin Brafman said defence investigators had turned up evidence raising doubts about Weinstein’s accusers.
He said the defence spoke to a friend of one accuser who said the alleged victim and Weinstein had been “hooking up” consensually for a long time.
Weinstein’s side also believes that police set up a phone call between the film producer and one of his accusers shortly before his arrest, but that it failed to produce incriminating evidence.
The Manhattan prosecutor’s office did not have an immediate response.
