The #New #York #Court of Appeals has overturned #Harvey Weinstein’s sex crime conviction. # And, as reported by various international media, including Sky News, it was ruled that the judge who sentenced Weinstein to 23 years in prison in February 2020 erred by calling to the stand women whose allegations were not part of the indictments against the former producer. # It is now up to the #New #York prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, to decide whether to put the former Miramax boss on trial again. # However, Weinstein is not a free man. # Last year he was sentenced in Los Angeles to 16 years in prison on charges of rape and sexual assault.
What happened in #New York
The #New #York Court’s decision was made (four to three) by a panel of judges composed of a majority of women. # 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. # Today the #Court ruled that “in our system of justice the accused has the right 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 former Miramax boss’s conviction in #New #York has always been controversial and his lawyers’ appeals, according to experts, had always had a chance.
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