The overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s conviction has prompted New York lawmakers to introduce bills that would allow prosecutors to bring up a defendant’s past in sex crimes cases.
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
Harvey Weinstein permanecerá encarcelado en Nueva York mientras el tribunal delibera si debe permanecer en una cárcel de la ciudad en espera de un nuevo juicio, o si será enviado a California para cumplir su sentencia de prisión por violación en ese estado.
Lawmakers are racing to update trial procedures for accused perverts, after New York's highest court threw out the disgraced movie mogul's 2020 sex crimes conviction last month on a technicality.
Harvey Weinstein appeared in a New York City courtroom Thursday as authorities consider California's extradition request to serve his pending sentence for a 2022 rape conviction in Los Angeles. The 16-year sentence Weinstein received in 2023 for raping a woman at a 2013 Los Angeles film festival had been on ice while he served time behind bars in New York after being found guilty of rape in Manhattan in 2020.
"He has very serious health issues. And I think it's also worth noting that since the day he was incarcerated, he has been in a hospital setting," his lawyer said.
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.
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,
Until a state court determines whether to extradite Harvey Weinstein to California to begin serving prison time for a rape conviction there, he will remain locked up in New York to await a retrial on similar charges,