Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein He was urgently transferred this Monday from Rikers Island prison in New York.where he is imprisoned, the hManhattan’s Bellevue Hospital to undergo emergency heart surgery after suffering chest pains. Convicted of sexual assault, his case sparked the #MeToo movement, which exposed the culture of sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood. He The earnings come as Harvey Weinstein is due to appear in court this week in New York.where prosecutors have prepared a new case with additional evidence against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein for sex crimes, after one of his convictions was overturned in April. Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing and said his sexual relationships with women were consensual.
Weinstein recently appeared in court in a wheelchair and askedremains in custody at Rikers, where he is receiving medical treatment. In late July, Weinstein was hospitalized with double pneumonia and Covid-19. In a surprising decision in April, the New York Court of AppealsIn a 4-3 vote, the trial judge overturned Weinstein’s conviction for sex crimes against three women, finding that the trial judge “erroneously admitted testimony of alleged prior uncharged sexual acts against persons other than those who reported the underlying crimes.”
In court, it was noted that the testimony “served no material purpose” and “portrayed the defendant in a prejudicial manner.” However, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has since presented additional evidence to a grand jury that could bring a new indictment against Harvey Weinstein for an alleged sexual assault that occurred during a period of four months between late 2005 and mid-2006 in a residential building in Lower Manhattan.
Prosecutors also said at a hearing on September 3 that they had evidence of two other possible crimes: a sexual assault in May 2016 at a Tribeca hotel and a possible sexual assault that occurred at the Tribeca Grand hotel.
Weinstein appeared in court after his New York rape conviction was overturned in April. A judge has tentatively set the rape retrial for November 12.
As previously reported, on April 25, Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was overturned, ordering a new trial in a surprising reversal of a emblematic case of #MeToo.
In a 4-3 decision, the court found that the judge in Weinstein’s trial allowed prosecutors to call as witnesses women who said Weinstein assaulted them, even though their allegations did not specifically relate to the charges against the entertainment mogul.
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted in February 2020 of forcing oral sex. to film and television production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006 and third-degree rape of fashion designer Jessica Mann in 2013. He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of sexual assault by Actress Annabella Sciorra’s rape accusations In the 1990s, Weinstein denied having nonconsensual sex.
Ultimately, the appeals court found that the judge had only should have allowed witnesses to testify about the sexual assaults Weinstein was accused of. During the trial, several women testified about sexual assaults allegedly committed by Weinstein, even though that was not what he was accused of. After Weinstein was convicted in New York in 2020, he was transferred to California in July 2021 to face trial. respond to allegations of sexual assault made by four women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills between 2004 and 2013.
