7 Jan 2020

Harvey Weinstein trial begins in New York

From Summer Report, 8:26 am on 7 January 2020

A mammoth jury selection process is about to get underway in the rape trial of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Mr Weinstein is accused of assaulting two women in New York.

He faces life in prison if convicted of the most serious allegation of predatory sexual assault.

It's likely to take two weeks to whittle a jury pool of 500 New Yorkers down to 12 jurors who will sit on the two-month trial.

Logan Church spoke to Feature Story News correspondent William Denselow.