Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges, Manhattan prosecutors said at a Thursday hearing, according to the Associated Press.
The indictment for the disgraced Hollywood producer remains under seal until Wednesday. The new charges come ahead of a retrial for Weinstein, after a previous rape conviction collapsed this year.
Prosecutors said last week that they started presenting evidence to a grand jury that included up to three additional allegations against Weinstein, AP reported.
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Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was overturned in April by the New York Court of Appeals, reversing a case that helped launch the #MeToo movement, and outraging sexual violence survivors.
Weinstein was originally sentenced to 23 years in prison in the New York trial. He was convicted of forcibly performing oral sex on a former production assistant, Mimi Haleyi, at his apartment in 2006; and of rape in the third degree for an attack on aspiring actress Jessica Mann at a hotel in 2013.
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But in a 4-3 split decision, a majority of the appellate judges concluded that the trial court erroneously allowed other women to testify about Weinstein’s alleged pattern of abuse, even though he was not being prosecuted for crimes against those witnesses.
“We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” associate judge Jenny Rivera wrote in the ruling.
Weinstein, 72, has remained in prison since the reversal, because he also faces a 16-year sentence in a separate case in California, where he was convicted in 2022 of rape, forced oral copulation and sexual misconduct.
British prosecutors discontinued indecent assault charges from 2022 against Weinstein last week, after determining there was “no longer a realistic prospect of conviction,” according to a news release from Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division.
The movie mogul is still at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan recovering from heart surgery he underwent earlier this week, Weinstein’s spokesman Juda Engelmayer said.
The indictment for the disgraced Hollywood producer remains under seal until Wednesday. The new charges come ahead of a retrial for Weinstein, after a previous rape conviction collapsed this year.
Prosecutors said last week that they started presenting evidence to a grand jury that included up to three additional allegations against Weinstein, AP reported.
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Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was overturned in April by the New York Court of Appeals, reversing a case that helped launch the #MeToo movement, and outraging sexual violence survivors.
Weinstein was originally sentenced to 23 years in prison in the New York trial. He was convicted of forcibly performing oral sex on a former production assistant, Mimi Haleyi, at his apartment in 2006; and of rape in the third degree for an attack on aspiring actress Jessica Mann at a hotel in 2013.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli..._magnet-harvey-weinstein_inline_collection_14
But in a 4-3 split decision, a majority of the appellate judges concluded that the trial court erroneously allowed other women to testify about Weinstein’s alleged pattern of abuse, even though he was not being prosecuted for crimes against those witnesses.
“We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” associate judge Jenny Rivera wrote in the ruling.
Weinstein, 72, has remained in prison since the reversal, because he also faces a 16-year sentence in a separate case in California, where he was convicted in 2022 of rape, forced oral copulation and sexual misconduct.
British prosecutors discontinued indecent assault charges from 2022 against Weinstein last week, after determining there was “no longer a realistic prospect of conviction,” according to a news release from Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division.
The movie mogul is still at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan recovering from heart surgery he underwent earlier this week, Weinstein’s spokesman Juda Engelmayer said.
