Story highlights Callan: Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been accused by many women, could face criminal charges

He says Weinstein would have some advantages in defending a criminal case, but he is far more vulnerable to civil suits

Paul Callan is a CNN legal analyst, a former New York homicide prosecutor and currently is counsel at the New York law firm of Edelman & Edelman PC, focusing on wrongful conviction and civil rights cases. Follow him on Twitter @paulcallan. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.

(CNN) Harvey Weinstein was last seen trucking in and out of one of Arizona's "sex addiction rehab" clinics. The movie mogul has stated that what he ultimately seeks is a "second chance."

Given the number of women who have now come forward with complaints that the famed Hollywood producer forced them to engage in a variety of nonconsensual sexual activity, it is likely that Weinstein may eventually find himself seeking his second chance in surroundings far grimmer than a sex addiction spa.

The current trajectory of his scandal suggests that those surroundings are likely to be the well of a criminal courtroom. The courtroom will be populated by a judge and jury who are likely to be the toughest audience he has ever faced.

The defense trailer for Weinstein's increasingly likely criminal court debut will undoubtedly depict the story of a man now deeply sorrowful for his history of crude and inappropriate behavior with women in the entertainment industry. The anti-hero will seek vindication in the claim that he violated no criminal laws and that all his sexual activity was entirely consensual, with young, attractive women apparently clamoring to make physical contact with a 65-year-old man described by Michael Che of "Saturday Night Live" as looking like "chewed bubble gum rolled in cat hair."

At an actual criminal trial, Weinstein's criminal defense lawyers will tell jurors that though the Hollywood tradition of the casting couch may now offend the sensibilities of many modern women, as long as both parties consent, its use violates no criminal law.

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