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    Weinstein trial ends with final jabs at 'a predator' and his accusers

    LOS ANGELES — In summing up the case against Harvey Weinstein for jurors this week, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez didn't hold back. Projecting images of wolves, bear traps and a barrel-chested Weinstein letting loose a belly laugh, Martinez described the disgraced film titan as a craven hunter who made a sport of preying on women and exerting his influence as one ...
    by James Queally, Los Angeles Times Dec 02, 2022 5 minutes
    Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, on Oct. 4, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — In summing up the case against Harvey Weinstein for jurors this week, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez didn't hold back.

    Projecting images of wolves, bear traps and a barrel-chested Weinstein letting loose a belly laugh, Martinez described the disgraced film titan as a craven hunter who made a sport of preying on women and exerting his influence as one of Hollywood's most powerful men to keep them silent.

    "He used that power to live his life without the repercussions of his predatory behavior. There is no question that Harvey Weinstein was a predator," Martinez said Wednesday at the end of a month-long trial. "For this predator, hotels were his trap. Confined within those walls, victims were not able to run from his hulking

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