weinstein, as you suggest, is he is going to trial september 9 on two counts. a rape count and a sexual assault count. so he is probably thinking to himself, yeah, nice to get thein civil stuff off the docket. but mainly he is worried about going to prison for years. he has a new dream team. jose baez, who was involved in the aaron hernandez case and the casey anthony case. harvey weinstein can afford theh best lawyers and he s going to roll the dice and hope he doesn t get bad news in new york in september. jason: he may not have a choice. when you get insurance company to make the payout, he had a bizarre contract, if you recall.tr but emily, as you look at the case from afar, granted, you haven t been through all the case files, but if you look atgh it from afar, harvey weinstein facing these allegations, it s tough to prove these. are they not? how serious is his jeopardy as he goes into this trial in september? i think he is actually in incredibly jeopardy here, given the clim
about that. by the way, i have the same question in terms of getting that rape count number, 139 counts of rape. they did one rape per woman per month. that s how they decided to do the charges. let me ask you, as the attorney general says, they haven t decided whether they re going for the death penalty. what would give them the grounds to do so is the charge of aggravated murder of the unborn child. how difficult is that going to be to prove? it s going to be very difficult. this is an unusual charge that ohio law supports. if you terminate, willfully terminate somebody s pregnancy, it is curd murder. how do you prove it? a prosecutor has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. they have to prove that she was actually pregnant. now remember, she doesn t go to a doctor. there is no pathology proving that there was a pregnancy. so you re going to have only the subjective testimony of the woman that she was pregnant. does that prove a pregnancy beyond a reasonable doubt? i think that s go