April 25, 2024 3:52 pm
The judge who sentenced the man to 23 years in prison for sex crimes in 2020 committed a procedural error
Tgcom24
It is now up to New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg to decide whether to put the former Miramax boss on trial again. The decision of the New York Court was made by a panel of judges, composed of a majority of women, with four votes against three in favor of revoking the conviction.
In 2020, Lauren Young and two other women, Dawn Dunning and Tarale Wulff, testified about their encounters with Weinstein under a state law that allows depositions about “prior wrongdoing” to demonstrate a pattern of bad behavior by the defendant. The Court ruled that “in our system of justice the accused is entitled to answer only for the crime for which he has been indicted.” Over one hundred women accused Weinstein of sexual crimes in 2018, and their collective stories were the cornerstone on which the MeToo movement was founded. In legal terms, however, the conviction of the former Miramax boss in New York has always been controversial and his lawyers’ appeals, according to experts, had always had a chance.
The overturning of Weinstein’s conviction is the second major MeToo setback in the past two years, after the US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a Pennsylvania court’s decision to throw out his assault conviction Bill Cosby’s sexuality.
