Weinstein's lawyers: "hasn't he suffered enough?"

Movie mogul mega-producer and Hollywood legend, Harvey Weinstein was due in court on Wednesday for sentencing after being convicted on only one count of first degree sexual assault and just one more count of third degree [not first but third degree], but on Tuesday his lawyers begged, practically begging on hands and knees, for leniency for poor Mr. Weinstein because unlike his victims, Weinstein has suffered enough due to his "historic fall from grace."

That is, if "falling from grace," [aka: falling from the respect others believed you deserved] is even worse than being raped or forced to have sex with him.

The begging is in the form of a letter to the judge in this case--Judge James Burke. The letter begs Burke to give Weinstein the shortest possible sentence--commensurate with the length of his "Little Harv"--maybe five years or so for his crimes. The lawyers claim that the poor guy is suffering unprecedented punishment already, what with having to give up his pool, his mansion and all those lovely women.

The poor guy "cannot walk outside without being heckled," they wrote, and his reputation is in tatters.

“He has lost his means to earn a living,” Weinstein’s legal team says, although the many millions he had already earned should tie him over for another 346 years if he lives a slightly modest existence on the outside. 

“Simply put, his fall from grace has been historic, perhaps unmatched in the age of social media.”

Boo, freaking hoo.

They go on to claim that Weinstein, who is 67 years old, may not survive even a five year prison term.

“The grave reality is that Mr. Weinstein may not even outlive that term,” they say, suggesting that for Weinstein, a mere half decade is “a de facto life sentence.”

That sounds reasonable. I'm sure he thought when he was raping them, he believed they enjoyed it because of who he is.

Weinstein could have gotten up to 25 years in the slammer if the judge threw the book at him.

As it turns out, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison. If he serves the full sentence, he will be 90-years-old on release. Of course, that's not what's going to happen, the way his health seems to be suffering of late.

So consider his sentence to be a life stretch, unless he somehow gets a pardon.


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