New York appeals court has ruled that the 2020 trial against the Hollywood mogul, a key target of the MeToo movement, was prejudiced.
An appeals court in New York has overturned the 2020 rape conviction against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. In a 4-3 decision on Thursday, justices decided that the high-profile trial was prejudiced against the defendant.
The Miramax studio boss, who helped make Oscar winners such as ‘Shakespeare in Love’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’, was found guilty of forcibly performing oral sex on a production assistant in 2006 and third-degree rape of an aspiring actress in 2013. He was sentenced to 23 years behind bars and sent to the Mohawk Correctional Facility, about 100 miles (160km) northwest of Albany, New York.
“The trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” the court’s decision said. “The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.”
The testimonies were “untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant’s character but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges [against Weinstein]” and amounted to “an abuse of judicial discretion” by Judge James Burke, the appeals court ruled.
Weinstein, 72, has maintained his innocence and argued that any sexual activity was consensual. He will remain imprisoned, however, because of another rape conviction in Los Angeles in 2022, which earned him a 16-year sentence.
Allegations against Weinstein launched the #MeToo movement in the US, with dozens of women coming forth to accuse the powerful producer.
At a hearing in February, Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, argued that Judge Burke had turned the trial into a “Get Harvey” spectacle. Burke’s decision to allow testimony from women whose allegations weren’t part of the case figured in Weinstein’s decision not to take the witness stand even though he was “begging to tell his side of the story.”
Aidala also brought up Burke’s decision not to remove a juror who had written a novel involving predatory older men, which he claimed showed bias in Weinstein’s case. Burke retired from the bench in 2022.
Appellate Chief Steven Wu, arguing for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, countered that the jury was not confused because it acquitted Weinstein on the most serious charges – two counts of predatory sexual assault and a first-degree rape charge involving actress Annabella Sciorra.
Please 😒
They’ve already said the case will be re-tried and that Weinstein will remain in prison for the duration. This is essentially a PR stunt.
Manhattan DA Alvin Brag isn’t quite the superstar the deep state we’re hoping for, turns out the general public hate him and his fake “hush money” nonsense. Only seems to be making Trump more popular.
So like a WWE script they trot out Harvey Weinstein once again. “Oh no, it looks like he’s gonna get away with it 😱”
“Not on Alvin Brag’s watch!!”
Now they’ll juxtapose Brag against two big evil scumbags like Trump and Weinstein, what a hero!
And they’ll get Biden to reference it in one of the debates somehow, maybe comment on how “courageous” Brag is (if they manage to stop Mr President from soiling himself on stage).
On the other hand, the ‘victims’ clearly do have a quest for stardom and money, dressing like sluts, gallivanting on red carpets, parading for paparazzi, having the odd tit hanging out, using sex to raise in the ranks, and then crying ‘wolf’.
Hollywood is a show-off, and as crazy as most productions are nowadays, as crazy are the people who want to be part of that circus.
Pride, the deadliest sin, is at the center of that swamp. I have no sympathies with most of the ‘actors’.
At least Trump paid. Low life Harvey ate the meal and skipped on the check!
LOL, mate u crack me up 😀
But seriously, who gives a flying fox of what ‘heads of state’ do (and because they are heads of state and NOT heads of the morality brigade, there will always -since 1000 000 years be hangers-on to tend to what any person in that position vies for, namely human connection, alas many times exchanged for shallow deeds of satisfaction).
The persons of ‘ill repute’, serving the echelons of governing elite, shall not be castigated just because so. It is what derives out of that governing mash. i.e.policies, which We The People will scrutinise!
Make NZ whole again, and I do not spy into your bedroom window.
The ‘moral police’ will be the next ‘health and safety’ tyranny we will have to face.
Weinstein is a Zionist J3wi$h pig who was immune from any and all laws, or so he thought.
He exploited the gentile and Goyim women, and abuse the same as per Talmudic instructions.
He must have pissed-off the Rabbis and PTB at some point and juncture…or his sloppiness exposed what was REALLY going on in ‘Hellywood’.
One of his ‘women’ is alleged to have been the wife of a California Governor…maybe that’s when it went ‘too far!’
The case will be successfully appealed, California will commute his sentence in absentia to ‘time served in New York’, and then he’ll be off to Israel, where most J3wi$h paedophiles and sex offenders go seeking refuge from prosecutions.
Not even Interpol pursues them once they are in the land of the ‘Chosen Ones’…
IF all is vibrational and harmonised in the Multiverse, perhaps then when the nukes go off over Israel, Harv will then become reformed and transformed..into a lump of atomised charcoal infused with the glass parking lots.
And…what about dat Ol’ Mack Daddy’ Beel Cosby…sheeeet! He be gettin’ dem stats too, Bro! Dey used to calls him “America’s Dad!” (& if he was ‘America’s Dad’, I’d hate to see what Grandpa was up to…!)
The ‘Me Too’ weaponisation against men in general has demonstrated that it can reach even the most famous and corrupt, be it truthful or not.
If the hormone-driven vulvicus maxicum’s are attached and controlled by a FemiNazi mind, then anything is possible.
To confirm this, just check out ‘The Real Housewives’ series on Zionist / J3wi$h-owned Bravo Network and see the horrific mindsets of those who are supposedly…privileged!