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Harvey Weinstein uses a walker to arrive at Manhattan Criminal Court on January 7, 2020, during the second day of his criminal trial on rape and sexual assault charges in New York City.
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Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday, a week after the state Supreme Court throw it out He was convicted of rape in 2020.
Weinstein appeared before Judge Curtis Farber more than four years after his conviction was hailed as a milestone in the #MeToo movement, which has seen accusations from women in entertainment, media, politics and other fields of sexual misconduct among hundreds of men.
Weinstein, 72, has served 23 years in a prison in Rome, upstate New York. He was later transferred to Bellevue Hospital, according to last week’s order, according to his spokesperson Juda Engelmayer.
Manhattan jurors convicted Weinstein in February 2020 of sexually assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013 Mann).
The convictions included charges of first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape. Weinstein has denied having non-consensual sex with anyone and was acquitted of other charges.
Last week, a New York appeals court found that Judge James Burke, who was presiding over the trial, made a serious error by allowing three women to testify about alleged sexual assaults by Weinstein that were not part of the criminal charges against him. part. The court said this testimony of “prior bad behavior” violated his right to a fair trial.
Weinstein also Sentenced to 16 years in prison This follows his separate rape trial in California. The two sentences cannot be served concurrently.
Burke is no longer on the bench, so any retrial in New York would be conducted by a different judge.
Judge Curtis Farber presided over Wednesday’s hearing.
weinstein Co-founder of Miramax film studioIts popular films include “Shakespeare in Love” and “Pulp Fiction.” His own eponymous film studio filed for bankruptcy in March 2018.