Harvey Weinstein to return to courtroom Wednesday after his NY rape conviction was overturned
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein is due again in a New York courtroom Wednesday for his first look since an appeals courtroom final week overturned his 2020 rape conviction and ordered a brand new trial.
The preliminary listening to in Manhattan is predicted to incorporate dialogue of proof, scheduling and different issues, in keeping with Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala.
Aidala stated Weinstein will attend the listening to, regardless of the 72-year-old having been hospitalized since shortly after his return to the town jail system on Friday from an upstate jail. He has stated Weinstein, who has cardiac points and diabetes, was present process unspecified checks resulting from his well being points.
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg’s workplace has stated it’s decided to retry the case in opposition to Weinstein. Authorized consultants say that could be an extended street and are available down as to whether the ladies he is accused of assaulting are prepared to testify once more. One of many girls, Mimi Haley, stated Friday she was nonetheless contemplating whether or not she would testify at any retrial.
Aidala stated Saturday that he plans to inform the choose that he believes a trial might happen any time after Labor Day.
The once-powerful studio boss was additionally convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of one other rape and continues to be sentenced to a different 16 years in jail in California.
Within the New York case that’s now overturned, he was convicted of rape within the third diploma for an assault on an aspiring actor in 2013, and of forcing himself on Haley, a former “Mission Runway” manufacturing assistant, in 2006. Weinstein had pleaded not responsible and maintained any sexual exercise was consensual.
The Related Press doesn’t usually establish individuals alleging sexual assault except they consent to be named, as Haley has.
On Thursday, the New York Court docket of Appeals vacated his conviction in a 4-3 determination, erasing his 23-year jail sentence, after concluding a trial choose permitted jurors to see and listen to an excessive amount of proof in a roundabout way associated to what he was charged with.
The ruling shocked and dissatisfied girls who celebrated historic features in the course of the period of #MeToo, a motion that ushered in a wave of sexual misconduct claims in Hollywood and past.
