Prosecutors say they’re nonetheless searching for new expenses in opposition to the Hollywood movie producer.
A New York Metropolis decide has tentatively scheduled the retrial of former Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein on rape and sexual assault expenses to start on November 12.
Decide Curtis Farber stated Friday he was open to an earlier begin date in September, relying on how pretrial discovery progresses. Weinstein’s legal professionals stated they hope to launch proceedings as quickly as attainable.
Final week, prosecutors stated they anticipated a retrial in November and informed Farber they have been nonetheless actively searching for new expenses in opposition to Weinstein.
The identities of the brand new accusers haven’t but been made public, and prosecutors are searching for to cover sure proof from the general public as they put together to hunt a brand new grand jury.
Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, stated eventually week’s listening to that it was unfair for prosecutors to hunt so as to add extra victims after the conviction was overturned.
Weinstein, 72, has denied wrongdoing or any non-consensual sexual contact with anybody.
Manhattan jurors discovered him responsible of rape in February 2020, however a New York appeals courtroom threw out the conviction in April, discovering that Weinstein didn’t obtain a good trial as a result of the decide improperly allowed the accuser to testify when he didn’t was formally charged with assault.
However his conviction is a milestone for the #MeToo motion, through which girls have accused a whole bunch of males in leisure, media, politics and different fields of sexual misconduct.
In 2006, he was convicted of third-degree rape for assaulting an aspiring actress and forcing himself to rape a tv and movie manufacturing assistant.
Prosecutors stated one of many accusers within the case, Jessica Mann, was getting ready to testify once more.
Final week, Floria Allred, an lawyer for the second accuser, Mimi Haley, stated her shopper had not but determined whether or not to take part in a retrial.
Weinstein was additionally sentenced to 16 years in jail after one other rape trial in California. The New York courtroom’s ruling didn’t have an effect on his conviction, and he has not but begun serving his sentence in California.
He’s being held at Rikers Island in New York Metropolis pending a retrial.
