Two jurors who voted to convict Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault in June now say they regret their decision and only did so because they were bullied by others on the panel. The claims surfaced in a newly unsealed court filing as Weinstein’s legal team pushes to overturn his latest conviction.
Weinstein’s lawyers argue that the guilty verdict was tainted by “threats, intimidation, and extraneous bias,” and that the judge failed to handle the issue properly during the trial, according to AP News. The filing, made public on Thursday, includes sworn affidavits from two jurors who said they felt pressured by their fellow jurors to find the former movie mogul guilty.
