What's wrong with the girl?
Shayna Hubers, from Kentucky, the US, who shot her ex-boyfriend Ryan Poston six years ago, was convicted of murder, but the case was re-examined last week because one of the jurors was found to have a criminal record.
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The 27-year-old Hubers was accused of killing his ex-boyfriend in October 2012. She learned that Poston and former Miss Ohio, Audrey Bolte were on a date and she went to Bolte's apartment to fire six shots to kill Poston, with one shot on his face.
Ryan Poston on the left and Audrey Bolte on the right (Video screencap)
Although Hubers insisted she killed her boyfriend in self-defense, the CCTV in the police investigation room recorded her singing and dancing in the room for several hours after the murder. She sang "I did it, I did it."
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In the video, Hubers kept waving his hands and dancing in the interrogation room, and even she could be heard sing "I did it, I did it, I can't believe I did it." It seems the killing was not like what she said: self-defense. As a result, the jury spent five hours in the debate and announced that Hubers was convicted of murder.
The case was first tried in 2015. The psychologist said that Hubers had a narcissistic tendency and could not accept any rejections. The judge sentenced her to 40 years in jail, but one of the jurors was found to have a criminal record, so the case arranged for reconsideration in last week.
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Hubers once again reiterated that she was in self-defense to murder, but her three prisoners proved that she had admitted jealousy led her a murderer. She even claimed to be laughing when shooting. Plus the CCTV footage to prove her confession broke.
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein 's assistants kept a list of female “friends of Harvey” to invite to events and sometimes considered them a special category for guest lists, an ex-aide testified Thursday at the former movie mogul's sex crimes retrial.
“A ‘friend of Harvey’ was a woman that he’d meet at events or parties or festivals or — somewhere,” said Elizabeth Perz. She worked for his production company from 2011 to 2015, initially as one of his executive assistants.
The then-married Weinstein asked his assistants to invite these women to events, Perz said. It was such common practice that Weinstein's subordinates had a shorthand: “Might as well add a FOH column,” Perz advised colleagues by email as they discussed the attendee list for some 2013 awards-season events.
Jurors were shown a roster of well over a dozen names, which Perz said was kept in the office at Weinstein’s company. The names were broken down by geography, such as “LA Friends” or “Cannes/Etc/all invites."
One “LA Friends” entry was Jessica Mann, one of the three women whose allegations are at the heart of the retrial.
Weinstein has pleaded not guilty. The once-powerful studio boss, who became a prime target of the #MeToo movement's campaign against sexual misconduct, maintains that he's never had sexual encounters that weren't consensual.
During the last five years, he was convicted of various sex crimes in both New York and California. But he's on trial again because an appeals court found that his New York trial was tainted by prejudicial testimony and overturned that conviction. He's charged with raping Mann in 2013 and forcing oral sex on two other women, separately, in 2006.
Mann, who was a hairstylist and aspiring actor when she met Weinstein in the early 2010s, is expected to testify in the coming days or week. The other accusers, Miriam Haley and Kaja Sokola, already have taken the stand.
At Weinstein's 2020 trial, Mann painted a complex and emotional picture of a yearslong relationship that began consensually but became “degrading” and volatile and eventually exploded into rape. Still, she kept seeing him and sending warm messages because she wanted him to believe she "wasn’t a threat,” she testified.
Weinstein's lawyers at the time argued that Mann willingly had a sexual liaison with him to serve her acting ambitions. At one point during his defense's questioning in 2020, she began sobbing so forcefully that court ended early that day.
At the retrial on Thursday, jurors saw messages that Perz had sent to Mann about some Oscars-related parties in 2013.
“Harvey would like to extend an invitation to you” and a friend, Perz wrote.
The Associated Press generally does not identify people who alleged they have been sexually assaulted unless they agree to be identified, which Sokola, Haley and Mann have done.
Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan in New York, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan in New York, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
