The jury for Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial has been selected and is made up of seven men and five women, with Friday’s selection of three white men bringing objections from prosecutors.

During arguments outside the hearing of potential jurors, prosecutor Joan Illuzzi repeatedly blasted Weinstein’s lawyers as coming up with what she called “pretextual” reasons to exclude what she said was “all” white women from the panel with their peremptory challenges.

Each side in the case has 20 such challenges it can use to strike people from the jury without giving a reason, but the judge has said the lawyers must show they aren’t motivated by bias and don’t show a pattern of discrimination against a particular group.

In the end, three African-American women, two white women, six white men and an African-American man were selected.

Earlier, defence attorney Arthur Aidala said one young woman should be excluded because she lacked the life experience to understand testimony that occurred before she was born. He also excluded a Latina woman because she’s a model with an acting background, and with modeling photos in her social media that looked like those of some of the witnesses.

“The modeling photos, they’re staged,” he told New York State Supreme Court Justice James Burke. “It’s exactly the same. She was a beauty queen, and she said she was an actress who didn’t make it. Who knows how she’s going to hold that against Mr. Weinstein, who was the person who was doing the selecting? I believe that’s a race-neutral reason.”

More than 80 women have accused Weinstein, 67, of sexual harassment or assault, many saying he used his power over their careers to abuse them. The New York criminal case against him, in which he is charged with rape and predatory sexual assault, involves two women. Weinstein maintains that any sexual relations were consensual.

Burke asked Aidala to answer the prosecution’s argument that the defense had used its peremptory challenges to strike “all white women” from the jury. Aidala said the defense had selected black women.

“So you discriminate equally against everybody?” the judge asked.

Nonetheless, Burke overruled Illuzzi’s argument that the defense had worked to keep white women off the panel.