A decide in New York has set a tentative retrial date for Harvey Weinstein for 12 November after the disgraced movie mogul’s rape conviction was overturned in April.
New York State Supreme Court docket Decide Curtis Farber mentioned throughout a listening to on Friday that he was open to probably beginning the trial sooner than November, as Weinstein’s attorneys have requested.
Prosecutors within the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace have mentioned that they plan to file “further violent sexual assault” costs after different girls agreed to testify in opposition to Weinstein.
The most recent accusers have but to be publicly recognized.
Weinstein, 72, attended the court docket listening to on Friday. He’s being held in New York Metropolis’s infamous Rikers Island jail pending trial.
In 2020, he was sentenced to 23 years in jail. However in April, a court docket of appeals dominated that he didn’t obtain a good trial as a result of the decide overseeing his case allowed testimony from girls who made allegations about Weinstein for which he was by no means charged.
He was additionally discovered responsible of rape at a separate trial in California and was sentenced to 16 years in that case.
Weinstein used a wheelchair to attend proceedings on the Manhattan court docket. He wore a darkish swimsuit, blue tie, and thick-framed eyeglasses and was seen carrying a brown folder.
The listening to was delayed for over an hour as a consequence of a world software program outage affecting Microsoft computer systems.
Weinstein has been accused of sexual misconduct, assault and rape by over 100 girls.
The choice by his accusers to come back ahead, and his subsequent conviction in New York, galvanised the #MeToo motion in opposition to intercourse abuse by highly effective males.
Weinstein co-founded Miramax movie studio, whose hits included Shakespeare in Love, which received finest image on the Academy Awards, and Pulp Fiction.
His movies obtained greater than 300 Oscar nominations and 81 statuettes.