They want to be relevant, they want to be heroes of the movement, he said.
What they failed in the beginning at they achieved in the end, he said.
He simply did not take no for an answer, Lucey said.
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court in rape retrialGetty
If he was told, no, he simply got what he wanted by force.
Lucey and Aidala did agree on one point today.
The defendant committed these acts when he was at the top of the entertainment industry, Lucey said.
He had all of the power, Lucey said.
Their testimony will not be history reinvented, Lucey said.
Weinstein is facing three accusers in court this time.
Whispered about, those stories surfaced in 2017 in a pair ofPulitzer Prize-winning exposesby theNew York TimesandNew Yorkermagazine.
Playing to the drama, lawyer Aidala has said he wouldnt rule it out.
That could mean a repeat of the graphic and emotionally grueling testimony that preceded Weinsteins first conviction.
Judge Faber has said that he hopes the trial will be over by the end of May.
