Harvey Weinstein must be due to the court on Wednesday before his new #MeToo trial, almost a year after His conviction in 2020 for rape and accusations of sexual assault was canceled.
Weinstein’s new trial should be a shorter version of the original case.
However, there will be a major addition: an accusation of an alleged victim who was not part of the 2020 affair.
More details on how the accusation will take place should be clearly indicated on Wednesday.
Judge Curtis Farber will make the decisions about a series of questions related to the case, including potential expert witnesses and the scope of the testimonies of the accusers of Weinstein.
Weinstein, 72, is expected to be in court for Wednesday’s decisions.
His new trial should start at the State Court in Manhattan April 15.
During his last appearance, in January, Weinstein begged the judge to raise this date.
He told the judge “I don’t know how long I can take” with cancer, heart issues and difficult conditions at the ISLAN Rikers prison complex in New York, where he is imprisoned.
The new trial includes accusations that Weinstein forcibly interpreted oral sex on a film and television production assistant in 2006 and violated a budding actor in 2013.
Additional costs, Filed in Septemberalleged that he forced oral sex on another woman in a Manhattan hotel in 2006.
The Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office Alvin Bragg said in court documents that the woman, who had not been identified publicly, had presented herself to prosecutors a few days before the first Weinstein trial but was not part of this case.
Prosecutors said they had not continued the allegations of women after Weinstein had been sentenced and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but they revisited them and obtained a new indictment after the State Court of Appeal rejected its conviction last April.
Farber ruled in October to combine the new indictment and existing accusations in a single trial.
Weinstein’s lawyers argue that the prosecutors have harmed him while waiting for almost five years to bring the additional accusation, suggesting that they had chosen not to include allegation during his first trial so that they could use it later if his conviction was reversed.
Weinstein denied having raped or sexually assaulted someone.
In February, Weinstein added Jennifer Bonjean, a lawyer who represented Bill Cosby And R. Kelly, to a legal team which includes defense lawyers Arthur Aidala, Diana Fabi Samson and former judge Barry Kamins.
By canceling Weinstein’s conviction, the court of appeal judged that the trial judge James Mr. Burke unjustly authorized testimonies against him on the basis of allegations of other women who were not part of the case.
Burke is no longer on the bench and such testimony will not be part of the new trial.
Weinstein was sentenced to Los Angeles in 2022 of another rape. His sentence of 16 years in prison in this case is still, but His lawyers called in Junearguing that he did not obtain a fair trial.
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