How can she be proud of this?

Harvey Weinstein said he was innocent three times, straight after his guilty verdict this week. I thought of The Hunting of the Snark, and the Bellman’s ‘‘What I tell you three times is true.’’ It isn’t, of course.

Only that masterpiece of the absurd could do Weinstein justice. No matter how often he said his victims gaily yielded to his forcible rutting, the jury didn’t believe him. His very name is now a byword for the abuse of power that rape involves, and nobody, not even the strange woman lawyer who defended him, will be able to take that away.

It’s hard to admire Chicago lawyer Donna Rotunno for her feisty defence. You can’t forgive her for declaring she’d never be sexually attacked because she’d never ‘‘go to the hotel room’’. I doubt she gets it, even now, that she actually said there that she was smarter than the more than 100 women who accuse Weinstein of assaulting and raping them over many years.

Yes, she thinks she’s savvier than otherwise intelligent women who walk home alone at night, stay late at the office, trust a man they call a friend, who think work meetings are about work, get drunk, and who ‘‘ask for it’’ by their stupidity. Theirs is the crime, being guilty of believing no harm will come to them. It’s a risky belief. Innocent, even.

Glad as we may be at Weinstein’s guilty verdict, it still doesn’t make him guilty enough. It doesn’t spell out the wrong in the entitlement he believed he had to humiliate a stream of women wanting work in film, or just to be employed in his office. What a ridiculous, deluded person he is. What an emotional imbecile.

I’ve often noted the trend of having young female lawyers appear in defence of accused rapists and killers, usually as juniors required to be present at all times to give the impression that they think the offender is OK. It’s not subtle, but cunning old foxes, males who lead the defence, know what they’re doing.

Awoman lawyer who specialises in defending male sex offenders, Rotunno was approached because Weinstein’s advisers thought a female would be ideal. She may be lavishly paid, and doing her job well, but is she admirable?

We’ll see a lot more of her as she appeals the verdict and appears for Weinstein again in California, where more women accuse him of sexual crimes. Maybe he’ll turn up with the walker that made him look like a poor old thing, too weak and disabled to attack anyone. That was strategic.

For now he is inmate No 3102000153 in Rikers prison. Rotunno will want to get him released until his sentencing.

He’s not doing it as hard as other offenders. He complained of chest pains on the way there, which qualified him to be in the medical unit in a double cell (to himself) with his own TV, shower and bathroom, and possibly a private pay phone.

This is to guarantee his safety in a prison complex known for violence. He’ll typically be among celebrities, transgender people, rape victims and convicted police officers, all likely to be targeted.

Maybe he’s getting a sense of what it was like for the women he forced into unwanted intimacy through the power he held over their careers, and the shame they felt, knowing that their chance of being believed, if they complained, was slim. Out of every 1000 sexual assaults in the United States, we’re told just five make it through to felony convictions.

For all his money, and his attack dog lawyer, Weinstein ran out of luck. It wouldn’t happen to a nicer guy.