Courtroom Extra: As Harvey Weinstein NY Retrial Begins Aide Tells of Mercer Hotel & Miriam Haley, Silver Suitcase - more here

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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

100 CENTRE STREET, April 23 – The retrial of Harvey Weinstein in New York State court began on April 23; Inner City Press was in the courtroom and live tweeted it, thread here.

The first witness was former Miramax assistant Stefan Sterns, who testified he dropped Weinstein at the Mercer Hotel to meet Mirian Haley, one of the victims in the case.

Sterns testified about a silver suitcase that always accompanied Weinstein, without saying - or being directly asked - what was in it.

Weinstein was bought in from Bellevue Hospital in a wheelchair. Many jurors spent the afternoon looking at him and not the witness.

After repeated technological snafus with the exhibits proffered by Weinstein lawyer Jennifer Bonjean on the screens in the courtroom of Justice Curtis Farber, a female witness who had been waiting was said to have to leave. She will or can return in two weeks, the prosecution team of ADA Shannon Lucey said.

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