New York – Harvey Weinstein’s new trial will begin on April 15, a pass trial announced on Wednesday, but it is not early enough for the movie in disgrace.
Weinstein, 72, spoke in court, asking the court for a trial date.
“I am in an emergency situation. I beg the court to move your appointment,” Weinstein said.
He said he looked for “getting out of this hole as temporarily possible. “
Weinstein has been in police custody on Rikers Island since the year, after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his rape conviction in 2020. His lawyer says he has leukemia and a host of other fitness issues.
“Every day, I’m in Rikers, it’s a mystery to me as I walk,” Weinstein told the Court. “I need because I need justice for me and I need it to be finished. ”
The judge also said the trial can include allegations from a woman who was not in the original case.
In 2020, a New York jury discovered that Weinstein blamed sexually assaulting an assistant in 2006 and violating an aspiring 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 prosecutor declared in legal archives that the woman emerged a few days before starting Weinstein’s first trial, but it was not a component of the case. The prosecutors said they reviewed their accusations after the initial conviction.
Weinstein also faces a 16-year sentence for a 2022 rape case in Los Angeles.