Weinstein, 72, is treated by many fitnessarrays by adding chronic myeloid leukemia, core and diabetes.
Harvey Weinstein begged a judge on Wednesday to hold his sexual assault retrial as soon as possible, telling him “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on” with cancer, heart issues and harsh conditions at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex.
The disgraced movie mogul objected after Judge Curtis Farber said the retrial would start on April 15, imploring him to swap with another, unrelated trial the judge has in March.
“Every day, I’m on Rikers Island, it’s a mystery to me how I walk,” Weinstein said during a Manhattan court hearing.
“I’m holding on because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over with,” he said.
Weinstein, 72, is being treated for numerous health conditions, including chronic myeloid leukaemia, heart issues and diabetes. He complained to Judge Farber that jail officers gave him the wrong pills on Wednesday morning and failed to pick him up for court in a timely fashion.
“So many people suffering on Rikers Island,” he said.
Weinstein arrived on the court in a wheelchair more than half an hour after the scheduled hearing began.
“I ask and beg you, your honor, to move your judgment,” Weinstein suggested, suggesting that even one step a week would be helpful.
Weinstein said it uneartments panting by air and predicted that he would soon return to the hospital to receive treatment.
He asked the trial pass about his trial schedule, adding a variety of jury in some other case that will begin on Monday.
Judge Farber said he had arrived on April 15 after consulting Weinstein’s prosecutors and lawyers, but that he would plan to start the trial a few days before, if time allows.
“I am in a serious emergency situation. I beg the court to move his appointment,” Weinstein said, telling him the approval judgment that sought to “leave this hole as temporarily possible. “
Weinstein’s request came after Judge Farber issued a key ruling defining the scope of his retrial. The judge upheld a charge based on an allegation from a woman who was not in the original case.
Weinstein had sought the dismissed additional fees, arguing through his lawyers that the Manhattan district prosecutor only strengthened his case with a third accuser after the most sensible court in New York revoked his sentence for 2020 for rape and rates of sexual attack that involved two women.
Programming the trial was confusing through a judicial calendar full of people.
Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, represents the political strategist Steve Bannon in a fraud wall trial that begins with another Manhattan judge.
Meanwhile, his trial on Farber has a trial for the murder in March.
Before Bannon’s trial date last week, Mr. Aidala had reported that Weinstein’s trial passes first in “the interest of humanity”, which mentions the health in the former head of study.
“They know that Mr Weinstein is dying of cancer and is an innocent man right now in the state of New York,” Mr Aidala argued in court last week. He pleaded to prosecutors: “Can I try this dying man’s case first?”
Weinstein is being retried on charges that he forcibly performed oral sex on a movie and TV production assistant in 2006 and raped an aspiring actor in 2013. The additional charge, filed last September, alleges he forced oral sex on a different woman at a Manhattan hotel in 2006.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said in court papers that the woman, who has not been publicly identified, was informed to prosecutors days before Weinstein’s first trial was set to begin not yet the component of that case.
Prosecutors said they had continued the accusations from women after Weinstein had been sentenced and sentenced to 23 years in prison, however, they reviewed them and received a new indictment after the State Court’s appeal rejected his conviction last April.
Judge Farber in October to mix the new indictment and existing fees into a single trial.
Weinstein’s lawyers contend that prosecutors prejudiced him through waiting about five years to file the additional charge, suggesting they had chosen to come with the prosecution at his first trial, so they can use it later if his conviction was reversed.
Prosecutors described the idea as “absurd”, which restricted Weinstein’s lawyers would also have outraged if they had been accused in the accusation of the third woman in her first judgment or after her conviction.
Weinstein “would have characterized this moment as a vindictive and loose aggression,” prosecutors wrote in a legal record last month.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s workplace said the uncharged indictment in the past “required a delicate investigation” and serious contemplation before seeking an indictment, in a component because there are no eyewitnesses to the alleged attack and no clinical or other evidence.
Weinstein co-founded the film and television production companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company and was once one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, having produced films such as Pulp Fiction and The Crying Game.
In 2017, he has become the most prominent villain in the #MeToo movement, which erupted when women began going public with accounts that counted on his behavior.
For a long time he has argued that any consensual sexual activity.
In overturning Weinstein’s conviction, the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial issued a ruling on James M Burke unfairly allowing testimony opposed to him based on allegations through other women who were not members of the case. Burke is no longer on the bench.
Weinstein was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of another rape. His 16-year prison sentence in that case still stands, but his lawyers appealed in June, arguing he did not get a fair trial.
Weinstein remained in custody in the Rikers Island criminal complex in New York, with occasional visits to the hospital to receive medical treatment, while waiting for the new trial.