NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to return to court Wednesday in Lower Manhattan.
The disgraced movie mogul has been in city custody at Rikers Island since last year, after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
A trial of steps about the beginning of her new trial and whether she will come up with accusations from a woman who was not in the initial matter.
Weinstein denied any representable act, that all meetings were agreed. Meanwhile, his lawyer says that the 72 -year -old type suffers from leukemia and a series of other physical condition problems.
In 2020, a New York jury identified Weinstein to blame having sexually assaulted an assistant in 2006 and rapeding a budding actor in 2013. He sentenced 23 years in prison.
Then last spring, the state’s top court ruled the judge in the initial trial should not have allowed testimony from accusers who were not directly involved in the charges.
Back in October, a judge granted the prosecution’s request to combine the retrial with a new charge that has since been filed against Weinstein. The additional charge accuses him of forcing oral sex on a different woman at a Manhattan hotel in 2006.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said in court filings the woman came forward just days before the start of Weinstein’s first trial but was not part of the case. Prosecutors said they decided to revisit her allegations after the original conviction was thrown out.
Weinstein is complying with a 16 -year sentence for a violation case in 2022 in Los Angeles.