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Accusers of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, 72, are responding to New York's highest court decision to overturn his 2020 rape conviction.
Harvey Weinstein accusers and others in Hollywood have condemned a New York appeals court's decision to reverse the disgraced producer's rape conviction.
Thursday's ruling overturning Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction gives the one-time film mogul a chance at a new trial and calls into question what evidence prosecutors can use in future sex crime cases. But a 4-3 majority of the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, found that the trial judge should not have permitted three other women to testify that Weinstein had assaulted them as well because their allegations were not part of the criminal charges against him. Such testimony about "prior bad acts" is usually barred by New York's so-c...
Thursday's ruling overturning Harvey Weinstein's New York rape conviction gives the one-time film mogul a chance at a new trial and calls into question what evidence prosecutors can use in future sex crime cases.
The former movie mogul's attorney, meanwhile, celebrated the appeals court's ruling as “a great day for America.”