Harvey Weinstein, Fired Amongst Sexual Harassment Allegations

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Harvey Weinstein asks top NY appeals overturn rape conviction, grant new trial in another

 

Attorneys for Harvey Weinstein asked New York’s highest state court on Wednesday to overturn one of the disgraced film producer’s rape convictions, and give him a new trial in another.

“Our client did not get a fair trial,” defense lawyer Arthur Aidala told the Court of Appeals at a hearing in Albany.

 

The fallen Hollywood titan was convicted in February 2020 of committing a first-degree criminal sexual act upon one woman and third-degree rape of another. He was acquitted on three other counts — one count of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault.

 

The jury found him guilty of a criminal sexual act upon former “Project Runway” assistant Miriam Haley inside his SoHo loft in 2006. Weinstein wants a new trial in the Haley case. Weinstein wants his conviction for third degree rape of aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a hotel in March 2013 dismissed because he claims the crime occurred outside the statute of limitations.

 

Miramax founder Weinstein was sentenced in March 2020 to 23 years in prison in the New York case. He later received another 16-year sentence on charges in California. Weinstein is currently held at a men’s prison in upstate Rome. Given his age, the two sentences could leave him behind bars the rest of his life.

 

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