Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterDirector Paul Haggis, now under house arrest on sexual assault charges in Italy, has gotten a trial date for his rape lawsuit in New York.The trial is set to begin on Oct. 11, before Judge Sabrina Kraus in Manhattan.
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterHarvey Weinstein’s second trial on rape and sexual assault charges will begin in Los Angeles on Oct. 10, attorneys agreed on Friday.Weinstein, 70, is facing 11 charges involving five alleged victims, which carry a theoretical maximum of 140 years.The trial is expected to take six to eight weeks, meaning it would run through the end of November.Weinstein has been held in a medical unit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown L.A.
for nearly a year, after being extradited from state prison in New York.Weinstein was wheeled into court by deputies on Friday morning, wearing a blue mask and a brown jail jumpsuit.He is already serving a 23-year sentence for sexual assault and rape, after his conviction in his first trial in New York in 2020. An appeals court last week upheld that conviction.
His attorneys are expected to appeal that decision to the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court. In the appeal, Weinstein’s lawyers argued that the trial court rigged the outcome in favor of prosecutors by allowing three additional accusers to testify, among other issues.
Outside court on Friday, Weinstein’s attorney Mark Werksman said he was “extremely disappointed and frustrated by the New York ruling.”In the Los Angeles case, Weinstein is accused of a series of assaults dating from 2004 to 2013. Weinstein will also be confronted at trial by five additional woman, whose allegations will be used to support the charged offenses.Weinstein’s attorneys filed a motion on Thursday seeking the opportunity to cross-examine each of those five witnesses before the trial.
Judge Lisa B. Lench has seemed disinclined to allow that, but said she would address the motion at the next hearing, on Aug.
.Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterDirector Paul Haggis, now under house arrest on sexual assault charges in Italy, has gotten a trial date for his rape lawsuit in New York.The trial is set to begin on Oct. 11, before Judge Sabrina Kraus in Manhattan.
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Authorities in London have authorized two charges of indecent assault against Harvey Weinstein. Police said the alleged offenses against the woman, now in her 50s, took place during July and August 1996.
Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is facing two charges of indecent assault in London, the Crime Prosecution Service (CPS) has confirmed. The Metropolitan Police has charged 70-year-old Weinstein following a review of evidence, the CPS said today.
Harvey Weinstein is set to be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman stemming from an event in August 1996 via the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Services.“The CPS has authorized the Metropolitan Police to charge Harvey Weinstein with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in August 1996. Charges have been authorized against Harvey Weinstein, 70, following a review of the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation,” Rosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said in a statement.
The disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is to be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in August 1996.
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