New York – Five years after Harvey Weinstein was condemned for rape and taken to jail with wivesThe former cinema tycoon returns to a Manhattan court on Tuesday for a new trial that covers the same accusations, in addition to one that has not been tested before.
It is not a double danger, but rather a legal remake after a New York Court of Appeals Voloteado the reference point #Metoo Verdict a year ago.
The State Court of Appeals threw the sentences of Weinstein and the 23 -year prison sentence and ordered a new trial after discovering that the original was inclined by “atrocious” judicial decisions and harmful testimony.
The jury selection could take a few days. Opening statements and the beginning of the testimony are expected next week. Judge Curtis Farber said that, in addition to 12 jurors, six substitutes will be chosen. Prosecutors expect the new trial to last a month.
This is what you need to know about Weinstein’s new trial:
Somehow, the new trial will be two essays spliced in one.
Weinstein, 73, faces positions involving two women from their original trial in 2020, Jessica Mann and Miriam Haley, and is being tried for the first time for an accusation of a woman who was not in the first case.
Weinstein declared himself innocent and denies having sexually raped or attacked anyone. Prosecutors cannot try again Weinstein for certain positions of which he was acquitted during his first judgment, including charges of predatory sexual assault and a first degree rape position.
The judicial restart will be held in a different climate to the first trial of Weinstein, which attracted the intense attention of the media and saw the protesters sing “rapists” outside the court.
The #MeToo movement, generated by dozens of accusations in 2017 against the former head of study, has evolved and decreased over time, and Weinstein has been convicted in a case of separate rape in Los Angeles, a verdict that is also attractive.
While some stars still face a legal calculation for alleged inappropriate sexual behavior, such as “Diddy” Comink, who is ready to judge next month, the drum of accusations against powerful figures has decreased from the first days of #MeToo.
Weinstein is being withdrawn from two positions from his original judgment: a position of criminal sex act for allegedly performing oral sex in a film and television production assistant in 2006 and a third degree violation position for allegedly assaulting an aspiring actor in a hotel room in Manhattan in 2013.
Haley, a former production assistant in the “Project Track” produced by Weinstein, testified in the 2020 trial that pushed her to a bed in her Manhattan apartment in June 2006 and forced oral sex, without being made of her kicks and pleasures of “No, please do not do this, I do not want.”
Haley, who has also gone with the name of Mimi Haleyi, acknowledged that she remained in contact with Weinstein, exchanged warm messages with him and accepted an invitation to her hotel room two weeks after the alleged assault, where she took her to bed by sex. According to New York Law applicable at that time, Weinstein has not been accused of rape in relation to Haley’s accusations.
Mann, who said he saw Weinstein as a “Pseudo Padre” figure while following a career as an actor after an approximate education, testified in the 2020 trial that caught her in a hotel room in March 2013, he ordered her to undress as she approached and then raped her. She claims that Weinstein raped her again eight months later at a Beverly Hills hotel, where she worked as a hairdressing.
Mann also contacted Weinstein after the alleged assault, testifying that he sent him flattering emails, because “his ego was so fragile,” he said, and “made me feel safe, worship him in this regard.”
In addition to Haley and Mann, Weinstein is also accused of a criminal sex office for allegedly forcing oral sex in a different woman in a Manhattan hotel in 2006.
That woman, who was not part of Weinstein’s first trial, has not been publicly appointed. Associated Press generally does not identify people who allege sexual assault unless they consent to be named, as Haley and Mann have done.
Prosecutors said the woman presented them a few days before the beginning of Weinstein’s first trial, but was not part of that case. They said they did not pursue the accusations of women after Weinstein’s conviction, but that they reviewed and obtained a new accusation after the first verdict was shot down.
Weinstein’s lawyers argue that prosecutors should not have waited almost five years to present the additional position.
The highest court in New York, the Court of Appeals, showed Weinstein’s conviction in April 2024.
In a decision of 4-3, the court said that the then judgment James Burke had denied Weinstein a totally just trial by letting three women testify about accusations that were not part of the case and their decision to let the prosecutors face Weinstein, if he had testified, about his history of brutal behavior.
The court labeled the accusations against Weinstein “frightful, shameful and repulsive behavior,” but warned that “destroying the character of a accused under the appearance of fiscal necessity” did not justify any evidence and testimony of judgment. Burke’s term expired at the end of 2022, and he is no longer a judge.
In a dissident opinion, the judge of the Court of Appeals Madeline Singas wrote that her colleagues in most continued a “disturbing tendency to revoke the guilt verdicts of the jurors in cases that involved sexual violence.”
The ruling reached “the expense and safety of women,” he wrote.
