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.
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.
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.
The proposed law would allow prior bad acts to be used in sexual assault cases—the kind of evidence an appeals court threw out in the Hollywood mogul’s case.
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.
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.
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.
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 after the disgraced movie mogul's case was tossed.
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,