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Judge Gets Stern With Harvey Weinstein, Threatens To Revoke Bail Over Repeatedly Using Phone

Eric Quintanar
Judge Gets Stern With Harvey Weinstein, Threatens To Revoke Bail Over Repeatedly Using Phone
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On the second day of his sexual assault trial, Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film mogul and former Democratic super donor, was given a blunt reminder: He can’t use his cell phone in court. 

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice James Burke, who has been described by the New York Times as a “prickly but fair-minded jurist with little tolerance for legal showboating or incompetence,” scolded Weinstein after discovering that Weinstein was using a cell phone in court. 

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