Harvey Weinstein to appear before judge in same courthouse where Trump is on trial
Harvey Weinstein is anticipated to look earlier than a choose Wednesday afternoon in the identical New York City courthouse the place former President Donald Trump is on trial.
Weinstein is awaiting a retrial on rape expenses after his 2020 conviction was tossed out. Wednesday’s court docket listening to will handle numerous authorized points associated to the upcoming trial, which is tentatively scheduled for a while after Labor Day.
Weinstein’s authentic trial was held in the identical courtroom the place Trump is on trial now, however the two males are unlikely to stumble upon one another. Weinstein is in custody and shall be dropped at and from the courtroom beneath guard. He shall be showing in a courtroom on a distinct flooring than the place Trump is at present on trial.
Weinstein was convicted of rape within the third diploma for an assault on Jessica Mann, an aspiring actor, and of sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a former TV and movie manufacturing assistant.
But final month New York’s highest court docket threw out these convictions after figuring out that the trial choose unfairly allowed testimony in opposition to him primarily based on allegations from different ladies that weren’t a part of the case. Weinstein, 72, has maintained that any sexual exercise was consensual.
The New York ruling reopened a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by highly effective figures. The #MeToo period started in 2017 with a flood of allegations in opposition to Weinstein.
Last week, prosecutors requested Judge Curtis Farber to remind Weinstein’s attorneys to not talk about or disparage potential witnesses in public forward of the retrial.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s workplace argued that Weinstein’s lead lawyer, Arthur Aidala, made statements meant to intimidate Haley earlier this month.
Speaking exterior of court docket on May 1, Aidala mentioned Haley lied to the jury about her motive in coming ahead and that his crew deliberate an aggressive cross-examination on the difficulty “if she dares to come and show her face here.”
Aidala didn’t reply to an e-mail looking for remark Tuesday about Bragg’s request.
Haley has mentioned she doesn’t need to undergo the trauma of testifying once more, “but for the sake of keeping going and doing the right thing and because it is what happened, I would consider it.”
Her lawyer, Gloria Allred, declined to remark till after she attends Wednesday’s proceedings.
The Associated Press doesn’t typically establish folks alleging sexual assault until they consent to be named, as each Haley and Mann have.
Weinstein, who had been serving a 23-year sentence in New York, was additionally convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of one other rape and continues to be sentenced to 16 years in jail in California.
