Harvey Weinstein back in New York court for hearing ahead of retrial in sex crime case

• Harvey Weinstein appeared successful a New York tribunal connected Wednesday for a proceeding up of his retrial connected activity crimes charges.
• Judge Curtis Farber granted nan prosecution's petition to harvester Weinstein’s original lawsuit and a caller complaint into a azygous trial.
• Weinstein faces retrial connected 2 activity crime charges aft his 2020 condemnation was overturned earlier this year, and successful September, he was charged pinch a caller assault. He pleaded not guilty.

Harvey Weinstein is backmost successful tribunal successful New York connected Wednesday for a proceeding up of his retrial connected activity crimes charges stemming from his landmark #MeToo case.

After nan proceeding sewage underway, Judge Curtis Farber granted a prosecution petition to consolidate that lawsuit and a newer complaint into a azygous trial.

The erstwhile movie mogul was facing retrial connected 2 activity crime charges aft nan state’s highest tribunal overturned his 2020 condemnation earlier this year. Then successful September, he was deed pinch a caller complaint accusing him of different assault. He has pleaded not guilty.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO NEW SEX CRIME CHARGE IN NEW YORK

Weinstein was convicted connected charges that he forcibly performed oral activity connected a TV and movie accumulation adjunct successful 2006, and rape successful nan 3rd grade for an onslaught connected an aspiring character successful 2013. In nan caller charge, prosecutors opportunity he forced oral activity connected a different female successful a Manhattan edifice successful nan outpouring of 2006.

Harvey Weinstein appears successful Manhattan Criminal Court connected May 29, 2024, successful New York. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s agency had based on in tribunal filings that holding abstracted tests would beryllium "extraordinarily inefficient" and discarded judicial resources. Prosecutors said nan cases person important overlap arsenic they impact akin criminal statutes, witnesses, master grounds and documentary evidence.

Weinstein’s lawyers had based on successful tribunal filings that nan cases should stay separate. They said prosecutors are attempting to "expand nan scope" of nan court-ordered retrial and toggle shape it into "an wholly caller proceeding" by including nan caller charges.

There’s besides nan mobility of erstwhile Weinstein’s retrial is expected to really begin.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S NEW SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIAL SET AFTER RAPE CONVICTION OVERTURNED

Faber had tentatively scheduled Weinstein’s proceedings to unfastened connected Nov. 12, but some defense lawyers and prosecutors person voiced concerns nan day won’t springiness their broadside capable clip to prepare.

Weinstein has been successful custody astatine nan city’s Rikers Island jailhouse analyzable and has faced galore wellness complications while down bars.

He was besides convicted of rape successful Los Angeles successful 2022, though his lawyers person appealed.

The intersexual battle and harassment allegations against Weinstein turbocharged nan #MeToo activity successful 2017.

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The 72-year-old erstwhile shaper co-founded nan movie and tv accumulation companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company. He produced films including "Shakespeare successful Love" and "The Crying Game."