Weinstein Case to Revive Los Angeles D.A. Office’s Troubled History With Celebrity Trials

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The Harvey Weinstein trial is now underway in New York, accompanied by a full-court media frenzy and a feminist flash mob. Once it closes in Manhattan, the legal drama will have a second run in Los…

But he, too, suffered a defeat in a celebrity case, when Robert Blake was acquitted of murder in 2005.

Lacey has been criticized for waiting two years to file charges against Weinstein. But that appears to be the pattern with high-profile cases in the office. Cooley waited nearly a year to charge Blake. Garcetti was the public face of the defeat. He nearly lost reelection in 1996, with his opponent John Lynch hammering his handling of the case. He remained badly wounded when Cooley finished him off in 2000.

“She did not build into the equation that there was a celebrity factor, and you have to figure out how to approach a jury because the rules of gravity don’t necessarily work,” he says.

 

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