New York’s top court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, the watershed case that sparked Hollywood’s #MeToo movement. The 72-year-old has been serving a 23-year sentence on rape and sexual assault charges in an upstate New York correctional facility since February 2020. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Here’s what we know about the landmark decision. Why was Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned? In a 4-3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals found that the appointed judge prejudiced the disgraced movie mogul’s case by allowing prosecution to call women who were not part of the case to testify as witnesses.
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Thu, 04/25/2024 - 8:37am
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