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A DA's failure to bring charges isn't the same as exoneration. Sometimes it means you're innocent, sometimes it means the DA is afraid of facing a "Dream Team" of expensive trial lawyers.
Face it, someone as massively creepy as Weinstein will always be under suspicion, no matter his legal status. And that's not entirely a bad thing; in a world where there's one law for the rich and another for the poor the rich usually escape prosecution because (yeah) DA's are so reluctant to bring them to trial. But in a world where everybody knows that, a rich bastard who's committed a crime may escape prosecution, but they can't escape public opinion...
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I'm not on the jury, pal, therefore I'm not held to the legal standards of a jury member, and shall say what I think!
But if you doubt my main point, you don't know much about the legal system. Fewer criminal cases are brought to trial than you think, trying cases in court is expensive and carries the risk that someone the DA wants to put in jail will be declared innocent by a jury, so huge numbers of cases are decided by plea bargain and never go to trial. Other cases are never brought to trial because the DA doesn't think there's enough convincing evidence to bring the case before the jury, And in extremely high-profile cases, you bet your ass that the DA's won't go to trial unless they have an absolutely airtight case, one that would completely convince the dullest juror if Johnny Cochran came back from the grave and spent months picking it apart. And yes, if someone as wealthy and evil as Harvey Weinstein was put on trial, he'd hire the ten best trail attorneys in the world and he'd dig up Cochran's corpse and have him cloned!
And that's what I mean when I say that DA's are "afraid of Weinstein's attorneys", they don't want to be the next Marcia Clark, the public servant who loses to a celebrity's expensive team while the whole world watches.
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"You're telling me how the legal systems works and you convict this guy in your mind without proof? Silly."
Honey, everybody makes up their mind about high profile criminal cases! You have, I have, everybody has! It's why selecting juries for high-profile cases is so damnably difficult.
And calling Weinstein "evil" isn't the same thing as saying he's a serial rapist or is guilty of any other criminal offense. Everyone who knows everything about him knows he's just plain EVIL, that's been common knowledge for years. Good night.
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Yup, it's borderline slanderous!
And if Weinstein's attorneys get in touch with me I'll consider shutting my trap, but believe me they've got tens of millions of people who've said worse things to get to first. As for you, I have no idea why the hell you'd want to defend someone like Weinstein, who is not only EVIL but if he'd ran you down in the street he'd care far more about damage to his bumper than your dying in agony.
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