“This decision is so unfair to the women that were hurt,” Bernard Cody told The Daily Beast on Friday.
New York rape conviction came as a shock to victims, activists—and the man who was the foreman of the jury that found him guilty.
“I heard about the decision at work. My coworker came over to me and said, ‘There is breaking news with your friend.’ And I was like ‘What friend?’ And then I saw it was news of Harvey’s conviction that I was a part of,” Cody said.Cody said he served as the jury foreperson because he was the first person picked for the panel of five women and seven men.was surreal and “difficult to go through” because jurors understood they “were part of something that was such a big moment in history.
“When we came back that Monday, we went through the evidence one last time and we came to a decision for a verdict,” he said. “It took us a long time to get to that decision.”
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