The news had already jumped on all the phones, but Harvey Weinstein still didn't know it. The historic #MeToo ruling that convicted the all-powerful Hollywood producer for the rape and sexual assault of two women – Mimi Haley and Jessica Mann – has been annulled by the New York Court of Appeals by a single vote, in a panel of judges with a female majority.
His lawyer, Arthur Aidala, rushed to look for him at the Wende prison (Alden, New York), where he has been imprisoned since he was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2020. The news will not bring him freedom, but rather he will be transferred to Los Angeles, where he will have to continue serving his sentence to complete the 16 years to which he was also sentenced in that jurisdiction.
The court considers that the testimony of other women during his trial with accusations that had not been proven, nor were they relative to the case for which he was being tried, were “irrelevant and prejudiced”, depriving him of a fair trial before the jury. “The court compounded that error when it decided that the defendant, who had no criminal record, could be questioned about those accusations, as well as numerous allegations of misconduct that presented him in a highly prejudiced manner,” the court ruled in its ruling. . Four actresses – Lauren Young, Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff, Annabella Sciorra – testified against him during the trial.
The annulment of the sentence, which had brought peace to the female world of #MeToo, fell this Thursday like a bucket of cold water. Weinstein can be tried again, which will reopen the wounds for all victims. “That's going to be very hard for all the survivors,” actress Ashley Judd told The New York Times, opening Pandora's box with her accusations. We still live in our truth. “We know what happened.”
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