The dust has settled. Harvey Weinstein was convicted of two counts that resulted in a sentence of 23 years. His principal lawyer, Donna Rotunno, actually put on a good show. She ably demonstrated that most of the victims oddly continued their relationships with Weinstein—sometimes with caring phrases after, as they testified, he had attacked them. She tried to show that those communications were dramatically inconsistent with their claims that he abused or raped them. But the evidence was too powerful.

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Interestingly, the courtroom wasn’t the only venue (or “show”) where Rotunno tried to make her case to the jury. Rotunno, quite remarkably, appeared on a podcast for The Daily for The New York Times which was published during the trial (Feb. 7, 2020) and even wrote a Newsweek opinion about the trial which was published just as the jury was deliberating (Feb. 20, 2020).