US EditionHarvey Weinstein faces new sex crimes trial in New York
- Harvey Weinstein is standing trial on charges of rape and sexual assault in Manhattan, after a state appeals court overturned his 2020 conviction.
- He faces one rape count and two criminal sexual act counts, with jury selection ongoing and expected to last roughly six weeks.
- Prosecutors allege that Weinstein sexually assaulted two women in 2006 and 2013, while he denies the allegations and claims all encounters were consensual.
- The trial will also include a new charge for allegedly assaulting an unidentified woman in 2006, with attorney Lindsay Goldbrum stating that it is a pivotal moment in the fight against sexual abuse.
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Harvey Weinstein New York retrial begins
NEW YORK — Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's retrial on rape and sex assault charges started Tuesday, forcing survivors who helped fire up the "#MeToo" movement to prepare to testify against him once more.Weinstein's 2020 conviction by a jury was overturned seven years later by an appeals court that ruled the way witnesses were handled in the original New York trial
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NY Daily NewsHarvey Weinstein lawyers seek transfer to hospital prison ward, say he faces possible ‘death’ on Rikers
NEW YORK — Attorneys for Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday filed an emergency petition asking the court to permit him to be housed at Bellevue Hospital during the length of his criminal trial in Manhattan, now in its second day of…
Harvey Weinstein, whose fall led in 2017 to the beginning of the global #MeToo wave, found the bench of the accused on Tuesday in New York during a new trial for rape and sexual assault after the resounding annulment of his conviction last year.
As the former producer returned to the judges in the era of Donald Trump 2.0, the era changed. Justice will revisit some of the accusations relayed by this journalist's investigation in the New Yorker in October 2017.
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