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A year after a New York Court of Appeal thrown Disgrace Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein Conviction of rape, the former media magnate will face a new trial in Manhattan.
Declarations are expected to start on Wednesday in procedures that could last up to six weeks.
Two accusers who testified in the initial test of Weinstein should regain position. But this time, he faces an additional allegation made by an anonymous woman who was not involved in the 2020 case.
The first trial took place up to the #Me too Movement, born from allegations made against the former film’s magnate by several female victims who had worked with him at various titles.
The new trial, which will perform in the same courthouse as Weinstein’s first trial, will be put before a jury comprising seven women and five men, a different configuration of his previous trial, where seven men and five women found him guilty. A new judge also presides over.
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The first time, the journalists bordered the streets in a frenzy for a place in the courthouse, while demonstrators were planted when he entered. The bustle was widespread enough for Weinstein’s lawyers to fight, although without success, for the trial to move away from Manhattan.
Harvey Weinstein arrived at the Manhattan courthouse on January 6, 2020 in New York.
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This time, chaos has appeared, due in part to a jury selection process almost a week and the decision of last year by a New York Court of Appeal to cancel its conviction in 2020 and its 23 -year prison sentence because the judge granted testimonies concerning the allegations of which Weinstein had not been accused.
Weinstein, 73, is taking over a criminal sex accusation for having allegedly made oral sex on a film and televised production assistant, Miriam Haley, in 2006, and an accusation of rape in the third degree for having allegedly attacked a budding actor, Jeessica Mann, in a room of the Manhattan hotel in 2013.
He also faces criminal sex accusations for having allegedly forced oral sex on a different woman in a Manhattan hotel in 2006. She was not publicly appointed.
Prosecutors say that the victim presented himself in the days preceding the Weinstein trial in 2020, but were not involved in the case. They chose to re -examine his allegations after his conviction was canceled.
Lindsay Goldbrum, an unnamed lawyer, said the new Weinstein trial marks a “pivotal moment of the fight for responsibility in cases of sexual abuse” and a “signal to other survivors that the system catches up – and that it is worth expressing even when the chances seem reckless.”
Weinstein pleaded not guilty and never denies violating or assaulting anyone.
His acquittals on the two most serious accusations during his trial in 2020 – predatory sexual assault and first degree – are still standing, according to the Associated Press.
The Manhattan district prosecutor’s office is continuing the new Weinstein trial through its division of special victims, which specializes in cases like these.
Weinstein employed several additional lawyers for her defense team – including Jennifer Bonjean, who was involved in the conviction of her rape conviction in 2022 in Los Angeles. She also helped to cancel Bill Cosby’s conviction and defended R. Kelly in her case of sexual crimes.
In a separate test in December 2022, the former director of the film studio was Bénu guilty of rape By a jury in Los Angeles and two other charges of sexual assault involving one of the four women whose accusations have formed the case.
In about a month, the jury heard dozens of witnesses, including the four women who accused the former film producer for having sexually assaulted them.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison; At the time, his conviction in New York was still held.
In June 2024, shortly after the jet of his trial in New York, Weinstein called on his conviction guilty to Los Angeles; His lawyers are looking for a new trial.
The appeal file claimed Weinstein did not receive a fair trial Because the evidence was excluded at the place where one of the accused is at the night of the alleged assault.
– with files from the Associated Press
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