A decide in New York has set a tentative retrial date for Harvey Weinstein for 12 November after the disgraced movie mogul’s rape conviction was overturned in April.
New York State Supreme Courtroom Choose Curtis Farber stated throughout a listening to on Friday that he was open to doubtlessly beginning the trial sooner than November, as Weinstein’s attorneys have requested.
Prosecutors within the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace have stated that they plan to file “extra violent sexual assault” costs after different girls agreed to testify towards Weinstein.
The latest accusers have but to be publicly recognized.
Weinstein, 72, attended the court docket listening to on Friday. He’s being held in New York Metropolis’s infamous Rikers Island jail pending trial.
In 2020, he was sentenced to 23 years in jail. However in April, a court docket of appeals dominated that he didn’t obtain a good trial as a result of the decide overseeing his case allowed testimony from girls who made allegations about Weinstein for which he was by no means charged.
He was additionally discovered responsible of rape at a separate trial in California and was sentenced to 16 years in that case.
Weinstein used a wheelchair to attend proceedings on the Manhattan court docket. He wore a darkish go well with, blue tie, and thick-framed eyeglasses and was seen carrying a brown folder.
The listening to was delayed for over an hour on account of a global software outage affecting Microsoft computer systems.
Weinstein has been accused of sexual misconduct, assault and rape by over 100 girls.
The choice by his accusers to return ahead, and his subsequent conviction in New York, galvanised the #MeToo motion towards intercourse abuse by highly effective males.
Weinstein co-founded Miramax movie studio, whose hits included Shakespeare in Love, which gained finest image on the Academy Awards, and Pulp Fiction.
His movies acquired greater than 300 Oscar nominations and 81 statuettes.
