New York lawmakers may soon change the legal standard that allowed Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction to be overturned, with momentum building behind a bill to strengthen sexual assault prosecutions a
The hearing in Queens criminal court on Thursday morning, days after Weinstein left a city hospital, was related to California's request, according to prosecutors and defense attorneys.
A bill introduced to the New York Assembly will allow prosecutors to use a defendant’s prior sexual assault history to be used as evidence in a sexual assault proceeding, allowing prosecutors to establish a pattern of behavior of a defendant’s “bad acts.
Harvey Weinstein appeared in a Queens courtroom Thursday morning as prosecutors fought an extradition request to send him back to California following the stunning overturning of his New York rape and sex assault conviction.
Former film mogul Harvey Weinstein got a break last month when a New York appeals court tossed his sexual assault conviction, ruling that the prosecutors improperly used prior bad acts as evidence at his trial.
While the New York courts decide whether convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein should return to California while he awaits a retrial for his overturned 2020 conviction, the former movie mogul will remain jailed in the Empire State,
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will appear in a New York City courtroom Thursday – just days after he was transferred back to Rikers Island from a cushy private room at Bellevue Hospital. Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein will remain jailed in New York as a court works out whether he should stay in a city jail while awaiting retrial or be sent to California to serve his prison sentence for rape there.
The state's highest court late last month threw out Weinstein's conviction in a ruling that said a trial judge wrongly allowed women to testify about allegations that weren't part of his criminal charges.