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But that was 18 months ago, and the heady rush of unseemly revelations has slowed since then, Geragos pointed out.

\"I think it's interesting,\" he said. \"The #MeToo movement cuts both ways.\"

\"The pendulum swung hard in one direction, [and] it tends to, in some demographics, swing back -- and that I think you can cure in jury selection,\" he added, counseling extraordinary caution and care in selecting jurors in the Spacey case.

\"The problem with a witness is you don't know how they're going to do on the stand,\" he said. \"They can do great at grand jury where there's no cross examination.\"

\"But the witness stand is a different thing.\"

Both Ryan, the former Cosby prosecutor, and National Sexual Violence Resource Center chief spokeswoman Kristen Houser said that while Spacey's celebrity and estimable theatrical talents present a daunting challenge to convicting him at trial in a case so reliant on the credibility of a single witness, it may not prove to be as powerful a deterrent to conviction as it once may have been to an average American juror.

\"I believe that we are in a place right now where the cult of celebrity is not as powerful as it once was,\" Ryan said. \"When you hear the facts in a case like this, the aura of celebrity is very easily stripped away.\"

Houser said that, as was the case with Cosby's main accuser, Andrea Canning, delayed reporting of a sexual assault is statistically more common than not.

\"Delayed reporting is actually the norm,\" Houser noted. \"It's to be expected. It's consistent with what the majority of sex assault victims do.\"

\"I think there are a lot of potential jurors who will be able to relate to the allure of certain celebrities -- that they're getting to have a personal experience, a personal interaction with someone you revere,\" she continued. \"I think it could be very likely that you'll get jurors who can understand that, because most Americans have a weird celebrity hang up that we believe these celebrities are the good people we see on TV and in the movies.\"

\"I certainly do think that there are more and more people in America realizing how common these [sexual assaults] are and I think we're seeing a lot more of them because of that,\" Houser concluded.

\"It may not be as shocking as it would have been before to learn that a celebrity would do something like this.\"

Spacey, through a representative, declined an ABC News request for comment.

ABC News' Aaron Katersky contributed to this report and Alexandra Smith contributed research to this report.

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