Lessons of the Harvey Weinstein Case.

To reach that verdict, the prosecutors had to nudge the jurors past any number of culturally ingrained misbeliefs about sexual assault victims: fallacies like "real" rape victims fight back. As Manhattan D.A. Vance stated afterward, "Rape is rape whether the survivor reports it within the next hour, within a year, or never at all. One count of first-degree rape and one count of third-degree rape arose from the alleged 2013 rape of aspiring actress Jessica Mann. Thus, in order to obtain a conviction of predatory sexual assault, the jury would have to believe Sciorra's account of Weinstein barging into her home and raping her in 1993 in addition to finding him guilty of either or both of the first-degree charges against the original victims. [Extracted from the article]