Harvey Weinstein Finally Files LA Rape Conviction Appeal As NYC Retrial Looms In The Fall
08.06.2024 - 02:47
/ deadline.com
Ever since Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault by a Los Angeles jury in late 2022, the once menacing mogul’s attorneys have swore they would be appealing the matter.
Today they finally did, and they made damn sure to hitch the appeal to the April overturning of Weinstein’s 2020 multiple sex crime convictions by a New York jury.
A shocker in some circles and seen as inevitable by others, the order saw a divided Empire State Appeals Court throw out the third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act verdicts and Weinstein’s 23-year sentence. In a 4-3 ruling this past spring, the Appeals Court determined the presiding trial judge improperly allowed “testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes.”
The New York Court of Appeals order a new trial for Weinstein too. As that matter heads back to court, the battle for Weinstein and for survivors has returned to the West Coast.
“Factual innocence aside, Defendant’s guarantee of a fair and impartial trial was doomed from the start when his jury learned during jury selection that Defendant was previously convicted of rape in the state of New York – evidence that was never introduced at trial,” declared Weinstein’s LA lawyers Jennifer Bonjean and Michael J Freedman in the opening brief filed today in California’s Second Appellate District. “Because the jury possessed extrinsic information about a now-vacated prior rape conviction that Defendant had no opportunity to challenge, Defendant’s entire trial process was infected.”
Read Harvey Weinstein’s appeal of his West Coast rape conviction and 16-year prison sentence hear
Currently behind bars at Rikers Island and in constant
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