Don Giller

In my experience, jurors see through this kind of garbage Weinstein's lawyers are pulling here. Politicians get away with this cheap crap all the time, but jurors tend to be turned off by these kinds of gimmicks. https://www.primetimer.com/features/how-david-lettermans-biggest-fan-became-a-pawn-for-the-defense-in-the-harvey-weinstein-trial …

We notice jurors who seem to get it wrong. Those cases get way more notoriety. But bad lawyers try to use out-of-context stuff VERY often and jurors, while not great at a lot of things, understand context far more than people realize.

This is especially true in situations where they are presented with something they understand, like an actor on a talk show. They'll pay MORE attention to that and are MORE likely to discount Weinstein's lawyer's angle here than if you just showed them an out of context email.

Which is to say: probably a pretty dumb tactic by Weinstein's lawyers here.