NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appellate court docket has upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction, rejecting the disgraced film mogul’s claims that the decide on the landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him by permitting ladies to testify about allegations that weren’t a part of the felony case.
The ruling Thursday by a five-judge panel within the state’s intermediate appeals court docket affirmed the milestone verdict in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by highly effective figures — an period that started with a flood of allegations in opposition to Weinstein.
Weinstein, 70, is jailed in California, the place he was extradited final yr and is awaiting trial on prices he assaulted 5 ladies in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013.
Weinstein was convicted in New York in February 2020 of a felony intercourse act for forcibly performing oral intercourse on a TV and movie manufacturing assistant in 2006 and rape within the third diploma for an assault on an aspiring actress in 2013.
He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault stemming from actor Annabella Sciorra’s allegations of a mid-Nineties rape.
The Related Press doesn’t establish alleged victims of sexual assault except they converse publicly about their allegations, as Sciorra has executed.
