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Film shaper Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized Saturday conscionable days aft nan New York Appeals Court overturned his 2020 rape condemnation and ordered a caller proceedings successful a 4-3 decision. File photograph by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
April 27 (UPI) -- Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized Saturday for a artillery of tests days aft New York's highest tribunal overturned his 2020 rape conviction, his lawyer said.
The 72-year-old disgraced Hollywood shaper was taken to Bellevue Hospital successful Manhattan for testing aft doctors examined him astatine Rikers Island jailhouse Friday, lawyer Arthur Aidala said successful a statement issued to media outlets.
"He's sewage a batch of problems," Aidala said. "He's getting each kinds of tests. He's somewhat of a train wreck wellness wise."
Aidala said Weinstein's ailments are "physical" and that mentally, he his "sharp arsenic a tack" and has " feet firmly planted connected nan ground."
The hospitalization came aft Weinstein was transferred from Mohawk Correctional Facility successful upstate New York to a aesculapian ward astatine Rikers successful New York City connected Friday. He was scheduled to look successful tribunal adjacent week for a retrial aft nan New York Court of Appeals connected Thursday overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
Weinstein was serving a 23-year situation condemnation astatine Mohawk aft he was recovered blameworthy of first-degree rape, a first-degree criminal intersexual enactment and a third-degree rape.
The tribunal successful a 4-3 ruling wished nan judge successful that lawsuit improperly allowed grounds and grounds against Weinstein that was "irrelevant" and "prejudicial" to nan charges against him.
Aidala connected Saturday said Weinstein was "not treated well," adding "they refused to springiness him moreover a sip of water, nary food, nary bath break. He's a 72-year-old sickly man."
Juda Engelmayer, a spokesperson for Weinstein, said "we're cautiously excited" by nan court's determination to overturn nan ruling.
"He still has a agelong roadworthy up of him because of nan Los Angeles case. We are studying nan ramifications of nan entreaty correct now," Engelmayer said.
Weinstein still is serving a 16-year situation condemnation successful California, wherever he was sentenced successful 2023 connected abstracted rape charges.
