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Harvey Weinstein to look successful tribunal complete activity crimes condemnation overturned
NEW YORK - Prosecutors asked for a September retrial for Harvey Weinstein during a proceeding astatine a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday, nan disgraced movie mogul's first quality since his 2020 rape condemnation was overturned by an appeals court past week.
Weinstein, wearing a navy bluish suit, was seated successful a wheelchair pushed by a tribunal serviceman arsenic he entered nan preliminary hearing.
Weinstein's defense lawyer, Arthur Aidala, said his customer was attending nan proceeding contempt nan 72-year-old having been hospitalized since soon aft his return to nan metropolis jailhouse strategy Friday from an upstate prison. He has said Weinstein, who has cardiac issues and diabetes, was undergoing unspecified tests because of his wellness issues.
Aidala said he has nary interest astir his client's intelligence abilities, describing Weinstein arsenic "sharp arsenic a tack. As crisp arsenic he ever was."
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's agency has said it is wished to retry nan lawsuit against Weinstein. Legal experts opportunity that whitethorn beryllium a agelong roadworthy and travel down to whether nan women he's accused of assaulting are consenting to attest again. One of nan women, Mimi Haley, said Friday she was still considering whether she would attest astatine immoderate retrial.
Prosecutors said 1 of nan accusers, Jessica Mann, who was successful tribunal Wednesday is prepared to attest again and suggested locking successful a day aft Labor Day for nan retrial.
Aidala said his customer wants to beryllium his innocence: "It's a caller trial. It's a caller day."
The once-powerful workplace leader was besides convicted successful Los Angeles successful 2022 of different rape and is still sentenced to different 16 years successful situation successful California.
In nan New York lawsuit that is now overturned, he was convicted of rape successful nan 3rd grade for an onslaught connected aspiring character Mann successful 2013, and of forcing himself connected Haley, a erstwhile "Project Runway" accumulation assistant, successful 2006. Weinstein had pleaded not blameworthy and maintained immoderate intersexual activity was consensual.
The Associated Press does not mostly place group alleging intersexual battle unless they consent to beryllium named, arsenic Haley and Mann have.
On Thursday, nan New York Court of Appeals vacated his condemnation successful a 4-3 decision, erasing his 23-year situation sentence, aft concluding a proceedings judge permitted jurors to spot and perceive excessively overmuch grounds not straight related to what he was charged with.
The ruling shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historical gains during nan era of #MeToo, a activity that ushered successful a activity of intersexual misconduct claims successful Hollywood and beyond.
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