James Myers of OAN
9:18am – Thursday, April 25, 2024
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape conviction was overturned Thursday by the New York Supreme Court, which said Weinstein should get a new trial.
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A state appeals court has found that the judge in the acclaimed #MeToo trial gave an improper ruling and was biased against the former movie mogul. That includes a 4-3 ruling that found a Manhattan judge “erroneously” allowed testimony from three women unrelated to the allegations in the case.
The court’s 4-3 decision stated, “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted exculpatory testimony regarding alleged past sexual acts against a person other than the accuser of the underlying crime. , because that testimony served no serious purpose other than proclivity.”
Judge James Burke also said that if Mr. Weinstein chooses to testify, he could be “severely challenged on the witness stand for these allegations and the numerous other allegations of misconduct that paint the defendant in a very unfavorable light.” “exacerbating that error.” ”
The appeals court stated that “the remedy for these serious errors is a new trial.”
Meanwhile, the 72-year-old was sentenced to 23 years in a New York prison in 2006 after being found guilty of forcing oral sex on former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Halloy. Served in prison. And in 2013, he raped hairstylist Jessica Mann.
Despite Thursday’s ruling, Weinstein will remain in prison, having been sentenced in February 2023 to an additional 16 years in prison in a Los Angeles criminal case for raping Mann in 2013. Ms. Weinstein, a model for her, testified that he threw himself on top of her after he showed up uninvited outside her hotel room. At a film festival held in Italy in 2013.
However, the former Hollywood producer insisted that all of the sexual acts he was accused of were consensual.
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