Posted on 04/25/2024 10:07:41 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The rape conviction of movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been overturned by New York's highest court.
The New York Court of Appeals, in a scathing 4-3 opinion, overturned Weinstein's conviction on sex crimes against three women, finding the trial judge "erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes."
The court said that testimony "served no material non-propensity purpose" and "portrayed defendant in a highly prejudicial light."
Weinstein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer told ABC News, "We are happily surprised and we are studying the ruling."
The Weinstein team, which was eagerly awaiting a ruling, was not expecting it to be in Weinstein's favor after a succession of rulings in different courts all went against Weinstein.
Weinstein was also convicted of sex offenses in Los Angeles and sentenced to 16 years in prison there.
Because Weinstein is already convicted in California, he will not be released, but instead transferred to the custody of prison authorities in California.
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Concerning admitting evidence of ‘other crimes’ that had nothing to do with the original issue, I sat in on a friend’s sexual harassment case against her manager. The other side brought eight witnesses against my friend that she misused a government credit card. Over and over, her coworkers testified against her for putting personal expenses on her work-issued government credit card. (She had to travel from one side of the state to the other for work in two cities for this job and thus incurred extra food expenses and phone calls outside her approved limit. It was unwise on her part but she wasn’t stealing, she always paid it back and her bosses let her do it until they wanted to ‘get’ her or on some charge.) The trial turned my friend into the image of an untrustworthy thief instead of about her manager’s harassment. The jury was presented with an unfair image of her and voted against her case
Yes, unfortunately.
Harvey Weinstein deserves to spend a very long time behind bars.
And he is going to.
Too bad . Was looking forward to it.
Yet Trump is being railroaded.
Agree.
I can see why almost no one accused me of being too cynical and negative about the system of pseudo justice.
I am right no matter what anyone says.
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