Harvey Weinstein Indicted Again in New York:-
Disgrace Hollywood movie Mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted again in New York let’s discuss I’m Dave aronberg state attorney for Palm Beach County aka the Florida law man here on True Crime MTN let’s talk about Harvey Weinstein .
Previous Convictions and Overturned New York Case:-
I did on him we talked about the reports that he was going to be indicted for additional crimes that is over and above the ones he was indicted for last time in New York now just to bring you up to speed remember that Harvey Weinstein was indicted for various counts of se*ual assaults and other things in both New York and California he was convicted in both places both he was sentenced to years in prison and the New York high court then overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction because in a 4 to3 ruling they ruled that the court should not have admitted some evidence of other women .
New Indictment Following Overturned Case:-
Who are alleging similar things to the victims in the case these are women who are not part of the case and whenever you bring up other uh women in a case of se*ual assault you have to be very careful because you cannot show other bad acts to prove that they committed this crime it’s called propensity evidence you can’t show look he’s a bad guy because he did that so he must have done this no what you could can use it for is to show a pattern an M Mo and it’s got to be pretty specific and here the court in New York said .
Now too loose the other additional allegations are too Loosely tied to this one there’s no specific pattern or that has been proven and so it shouldn’t have been admitted and as a result by 4 to3 vote the high court threw his conviction out now it did not mean he would go free because he’s still stuck in the California sentence because he was found guilty there too that has not been overturned the only the New York case has been overturned and then prosecutors said well not only are we going to retry the case in New York but we’re going to add on new counts and we don’t yet know in this new indictment.
Medical Issues Prevent Weinstein from Attending Hearing;-
The allegations will likely remain sealed until Weinstein is arraigned it could include sexual assault allegations from three women prosecutors said at a separate hearing last week the disgrace movie Mogul was not present at the Thursday hearing because he was not medically cleared to attend after an emergency procedure on his heart and lungs earlier this week Weinstein was being treated in the Intensive Care Unit at bellw hospital until Wednesday his attorney Arthur idala said prosecutors began presenting a case to the grand jury in mid August they did not identify the three accusers by name but described their allegations at the hearing last week.
Details of New Allegations:-
One alleged assault occurred at a residential building in lower Manhattan in the winter months between 2005 and 2006 prosecutors said another accuser is said to have been se*ually assaulted in a hotel in Tribeca in May 2016 a third woman has alleged Weinstein sexually assaulted her at the trebecca Grand Hotel that alleged salt is said to have occurred during 2006 some grammatical issues here with this story kosers have said the new indictment is not tied to Jessica man and Mimi Haley whose allegations are tied to the charges wiin scen is set to be retried on November 12th .
Weinstein’s Legal Team Responds:-
So it looks like there are new charges here in this new indictment in addition to the original charges that’s the one involving Jessica man and Mimi Haley they were the original victims and
Weinstein is likely to be retried on their counts on their allegations but now it looks like there are additional allegations he’s going to have to face up to and that goes in the category be careful what you wish for because Weinstein woned his case overturned on appeal and he got it and now as a result he’s going to face potentially more years in prison not that he was ever going to get out as a a guy in his early 70s who is facing serious medical conditions .
Weinstein’s Future Legal Battles:-
I mean he’s essentially been given a life sentence when you combine the California and the New York sentences but here I mean the prosecutors are just ready to bring the pain and they don’t have to apparently use the extrinsic evidence the evidence of other bad acts to help prove this especially if they have new allegations coming from women who are going to speak up and you know that’s not too surprising because when it comes to se*ual assault that is an underreported crime and when you have someone who is now going to be in prison no matter what in California for example then you have women who are fearless about coming forward now whereas before they may say hey what happens if he goes free what happens if he is if he is acquitted so that gives extra strength perhaps to women who otherwise would not have been able to find their voices.
Prosecutors Want to Combine the Two Cases:-
But it looks like this is going to be game on we’ll find out at his arraignment that’s when he’s going to have to plead guilty or not guilty it will be not guilty that’s generally what happens and then we’ll find out it’ll be unsealed and we’ll find out the extent of these new charges but it’s only going to go from bad to worse for Harvey Weinstein even though he did get that temporary victory in the high court of New York barely 4 to3 but he did get that Victory but it’s going to unravel soon enough for this guy according to office wants to combine the two cases yes they want this whole thing tried at once add the additional alleged victims to the case involving the two known victims Jessica man and Mimi Haley prosecutors could be ready to try.
Weinstein’s Hollywood Legacy in Ruins:-
Weinstein on the new indictment in November with all of our survivors blumberg said in court that’s quick a November trial when the indictments were just mentioned today just here in SE early September and now they could go to trial as early as November in part because they’ve already tried it once before there’s less of a need to build up with Discovery but if you have new victims then yeah that’s the type of thing that could slow things down that the defense will probably try to extend uh the trial try to postpone it it’s what defense lawyers generally do and not surprisingly Weinstein’s lawyer doesn’t think they can go to trial in November .
Recap of Weinstein’s Legal Journey:-
According to opposed the idea calling it laughable to suggest it was ethical for Weinstein’s defense Council to defend him on the new indictment 2 months from now quote we are ready to defend whatever comes our way it’s just a little odd for us to be so in the dark at this point that we really don’t know what is coming our way with any degree of specificity ellaa told reporters after the hearing so let’s recap Harvey Weinstein who was convicted first in 2020 in New York he got 23 years in prison he then was convicted in California in 2022 where he got 16 years in prison the New York case was overturned not the California case prosecutors.
Now went back they have new victims to create a new indictment and they want to combine the original case that was overturned with the new case and they want to go to trial in November Arthur idala the lawyer for Weinstein says no way can we be ready in time no matter what happens though the California case still remains Harvey Weinstein 72 years old uh I think we’ll never see the light of day again unless they have a compassionate release at the end if he’s about to die uh this is quite a fall for a guy who was at the top of the Heap when it comes to Hollywood and movies and the Academy Awards when it came to the Oscars how many times did an actor receive an award and say thank you Harvey Weinstein and he sat there beaming I mean Shakespeare and love and all these other movies well uh there is no more Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood there are no more thank you to him at the Oscar Podium so that is the latest in the case against Harvey Weinstein.