As soon as once more, Harvey Weinstein goes on trial for intercourse crimes in New York in the present day

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein is on trial for intercourse crimes, once more. Jury choice begins on Tuesday in a decrease Manhattan courtroom, the place Weinstein, as soon as one of the crucial highly effective individuals in Hollywood, should reply fees that he sexually assaulted three totally different girls.

It’s Weinstein’s third trial in simply over 5 years. In 2020, he was convicted of two felony intercourse crimes in New York. Two years later he was convicted of three counts in California.

Final 12 months, an appeals courtroom overturned Weinstein’s New York conviction, concluding that the trial choose had improperly allowed the testimony of a number of witnesses who described alleged sexual misconduct that was not charged within the indictment. Weinstein’s 23-year sentence was thereby voided. Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg stated quickly after that his workplace deliberate to retry Weinstein. In September, Bragg introduced an extra grand jury indictment that wasn’t included in earlier instances. 

Within the trial that begins this week, jurors are anticipated to listen to from two alleged victims who testified in 2020, former actress Jessica Mann and producer Miriam “Mimi” Haley, who beforehand used the final title Haleyi, in addition to an extra accuser, whose existence Bragg revealed final September. That lady says Weinstein pressured her to carry out oral intercourse on him in a resort in 2006.

Weinstein has pleaded not responsible. Whereas awaiting retrial, he has been held at Riker’s Island, apart from a number of stays at Bellevue Hospital.

Weinstein, 73, has not too long ago undergone therapy for bone marrow most cancers, and final 12 months acquired emergency coronary heart surgical procedure. At a listening to final week, he used a wheelchair however appeared energetic and alert, answering questions from Decide Farber, and conferring together with his authorized group.

Decide Curtis Farber has stated jury choice on this trial may final 5 days. He stated he plans to ask potential jurors in the event that they’re conscious of the allegations towards Weinstein, and if they will put aside their prior impressions to pretty determine the case primarily based on the proof.

Whereas Weinstein fights the New York fees, and has appealed his California conviction, he stays a disgraced determine. Dozens of ladies have accused him of misconduct, and he has confronted a raft of civil litigation. Distinguished leisure figures from Asia Argento to Rose McGowan to Ashley Judd have accused him of abusing his energy and affect.

For a few years, Weinstein stood on the intersection of crucial acclaim and field workplace success. His tasks included Pulp Fiction, Good Will Searching, Shakespeare in Love and The English Affected person. In 2017, two blockbuster tales in The New York Instances and The New Yorker broke open Weinstein’s lengthy historical past of alleged sexual misconduct, every one together with the names of a number of accusers who had been keen to go on the document.

That reporting catalyzed the #MeToo motion, and shortly led to Weinstein’s skilled downfall. Weinstein was fired from The Weinstein Firm, which he co-founded together with his brother, Bob. It then filed for chapter.

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