The repetition of the New York trial against film producer Harvey Weinstein for sexual crimes will begin on April 15, according to Judge Curtis Farber in New York on Wednesday, at an audience in which the defendant asked to advance the date due to aggravation of your state of health in jail.
In 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison in New York for sexual violation and aggression, after a historical judgment for movement against sexual abuse #Metoo, but in April 2024 the producer won an appeal to annul him arguing procedural errors, After which a new trial was ordered.
Last September, the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office accused Weinstein of a new sexual crime against a woman supposedly committed in 2006 and Judge Farber agreed to add that accusation to those of the trial for the original case that was annulled, instead of establishing two processes separate.
According to NBC, at the hearing Judge Farber rejected a motion of the defense of Weinstein to dismiss the new imputation of September and decided that the trial begins on April 15, but did not close the door to advance the date after listening to the producer’s supplications , who suggested that he could die soon.
“I will not be there in April. I can’t wait for tomorrow. I can’t endure anymore. I am enduring because I want justice, I want this to end, ”Weinstein, 72, implored, who was transferred to the court in wheelchair as on other occasions, collects that medium.
Last October it transpired that Weinstein is receiving treatment for bone marrow cancer in the Rikers prison in New York, where he celebrates another 16 -year sentence for sexual crimes committed in California, and his lawyers have repeatedly denounced the bad conditions in which lives. In December he was transferred to a hospital for emergency cardiac surgery.
Judge Farber said he will try to advance the new trial against Weinstein for a week, but first he must reach an agreement with the parties of another process that conflicts with those dates.
The producer of Pulp fiction He has declared himself not guilty of the new crime he was accused in September, as well as the previous accusations for which he was tried in 2020.
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