BREAKING NEWSDisgraced Film Producer Harvey Weinstein Indicted on Additional Charges in Manhattan Supreme Court After Conviction Was Overturned
Harvey Weinstein faces new charges in his New York trial.
A New York grand jury indicted disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein with new charges on Thursday, September 12, in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Harvey Weinstein is still recovering from heart surgery.
The new indictment was announced on Thursday's hearing, which was held days after Weinstein was rushed from Rikers Island, where he is being held, to Bellevue Hospital for emergency open-heart surgery after experiencing chest pains.
Judge Curtis Farber ordered the city corrections department to house Weinstein in the Bellevue Hospital prison ward if medically necessary.
Weinstein's latest indictment comes months after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
The additional charges remain sealed.
The new indictment against Weinstein will remain sealed until his arraignment, so little is known about the new charges.
According to ABC News, prosecutors presented evidence of three alleged s-- assaults from various time periods, which were not part of his previous case.
Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing and has said his sexual encounters were consensual.
The second trial was expected to take place in November, but Judge Farber wondered if it was “premature” to think that it could still happen by that time, given Weinstein’s ongoing health issues.
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An appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein's conviction.
The judge who oversaw the disgraced movie producer’s infamous #MeToo trial in 2020 had prejudiced the trial with "improper rulings" — including one decision to allow women to testify about allegations that were not relevant to the case at hand.
“We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” the court’s 4-3 decision said. “The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.”
“It is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant’s character but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges lodged against them,” the court’s majority added.
Several women have come forward with allegations against Harvey Weinstein.
Weinstein was found guilty of “forcibly performing oral s--” on an assistant in 2006, as well as rape in the third degree for an attack on an actress in 2013 during his 2020 New York trial.
Several women came forward beginning in 2017 with damning allegations against Weinstein.
Even after Weinstein's New York conviction was overturned, actress Rose McGowan told survivors to "stand strong," going on to tell her Instagram followers, "They will never overturn who we are."
