Ashley Judd and more stars speak out against Harvey Weinstein’s overturned rape conviction: ‘Unfair to survivors’

Ashley Judd and respective different Hollywood stars, immoderate of who had travel guardant astir being sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein, slammed nan courts for overturning his rape conviction.

“That is unfair to survivors,” Judd, nan first personage accuser to speak retired against nan disgraced movie producer, told The New York Times successful an article published Thursday.

“We still unrecorded successful our truth. And we cognize what happened,” she added.

Additionally, Filipino Italian exemplary Ambra Battilana Gutierrez — who accused Weinstein of grabbing her breasts and putting his hands up her skirt during a 2015 business gathering successful his Manhattan agency — didn’t clasp backmost connected calling retired nan courts.

“If nan D.A. had taken my lawsuit earnestly successful 2015, we wouldn’t beryllium here,” Gutierrez told nan newspaper. “This is an ongoing nonaccomplishment of nan justness strategy — and nan courts — to return survivors earnestly and to protect our interests.”

Katherine Kendall — who accused Weinstein of chasing her while naked successful his New York flat during what she believed to beryllium a activity gathering — called nan ruling a “terrible reminder that victims of intersexual battle conscionable don’t get justice.”

She added that women who spell up against “powerful men seldom get justice.”

“But nan important point is that we do not extremity speaking out,” she said. “Our civilization needs to support supporting soundlessness breakers.”

“Law & Order: SVU” character Mariska Hargitay slammed nan decision, writing connected Instagram, “The reversal of Harvey Weinstein’s condemnation comes arsenic a achy and infuriating affront to survivors and advocates everywhere.”

Hargitay, a rape survivor, added, “To each subsister successful this lawsuit and each subsister who has to carnivore witnesser to this incorrigible matrimony of justice, my bosom is pinch you today, tomorrow, and forever.”

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Actress Amber Tamblyn — an outspoken advocator of nan #MeToo activity — became enraged erstwhile she heard astir nan court’s decision, calling it “a nonaccomplishment to nan full organization of women who put their lives and careers connected nan statement to speak out.”

Weinstein’s activity crimes condemnation was overturned successful a shocking determination Thursday aft nan New York Court of Appeals ruled that nan witnesser grounds should not person been allowed during nan trial.

The “prior bad acts” witnesses were “unnecessary to found defendant’s intent and served only to found defendant’s propensity to perpetrate nan crimes charged,” nan courts claimed.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is reportedly readying a retrial.

“We will do everything successful our powerfulness to retry this case, and stay patient successful our committedness to survivors of intersexual assault,” spokesperson Emily Tuttle told CNN.

Meanwhile, nan fallen movie mogul’s defense attorney, Donna Rotunno, believes nan determination is “larger than Harvey Weinstein.”

“Courts cannot run connected emotion and deficiency of owed process,” Rotunno said. “The world is off-balance, and erstwhile nan justness strategy does not work, thing does. This determination restores religion successful nan instauration of our system.”

In February 2020, Weinstein was convicted of 1 count of rape and 1 count of criminal activity act.

At nan time, Weinstein was recovered blameworthy of a criminal intersexual enactment successful nan first grade for forcibly performing oral activity connected erstwhile “Project Runway” accumulation adjunct Miriam “Mimi” Haleyi and rape successful nan 3rd grade for an onslaught connected hairstylist Jessica Mann.

He was sentenced to 23 years successful prison for raping Mann and sexually abusing Haleyi.

The proceedings saw 28 witnesses return nan guidelines to springiness affectional testimony, though astatine slightest 80 women person reportedly travel guardant pinch accusations of misconduct from Weinstein.

Three years later, he was sentenced to different 16 years successful prison following his proceedings successful Los Angeles for nan forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and intersexual penetration by a overseas entity of Jane Doe 1, an Italian model, astatine nan Mr. C Hotel successful nan metropolis successful February 2013.

Outrage complete Weinstein’s alleged actions inspired nan #MeToo activity that swept Hollywood.

If you aliases personification you cognize is affected by immoderate of nan issues raised successful this story, telephone nan Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-330-0226.