By Michael R. Sisak and Jennifer Peltz
As jury selection started on Tuesday in Harvey Weinstein’s New York City rape retrial, some prospective jurors made clear they couldn’t be fair in judging the one-time Hollywood mogul-turned-#MeToo pariah.
Mark Axelowitz, an actor who plays a Manhattan prosecutor in the new Robert De Niro film “The Alto Knights,” was one of more than a dozen candidates who raised a hand when the judge asked if anyone felt they couldn’t be impartial.
“I don’t like the guy, he is a really bad guy,” Axelowitz told a reporter after being dismissed from consideration.
Another dismissed prospective juror disqualified herself because she had previously been sexually assaulted. Yet another said, “I don’t see how anyone can be impartial.”
Weinstein is being tried again after New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, last year overturned his 2020 conviction and 23-year prison sentence and ordered a new trial, finding that improper rulings
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