Disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein has resurfaced in a Manhattan courtroom less than a week after his rape conviction was overturned.
A frail Weinstein was brought into the downtown courtroom Wednesday afternoon for a hearing on the next steps toward a new trial imaginable.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he plans to retry the case against the 72-year-old former studio head after an appeals court overturned his 2020 conviction on April 25.
Weinstein noticed him dressed in a military blue suit and tie, with his wrists handcuffed as court officials wheeled him out of a prison van in a wheelchair and into the courthouse in midtown Manhattan, footage received via the Daily Mail showed.
Prosecutors have said they will retry Weinstein in New York starting in September, arguing that his case against the embarrassing movie maker “remains strong in 2024. “
“We expect the defendant to be convicted again after trial,” prosecutors said.
It was the first time Weinstein had been in court since he was sentenced to 23 years in prison in March 2020 for allegedly sexually assaulting actress Jessica Mann and film producer Miriam “Mimi” Haley.
Mann, one of two plaintiffs whose allegations led to criminal charges against Weinstein in 2020, provided at Wednesday’s hearing.
“Here’s a survivor of sexual assault. She wanted everyone to know that she had the truth,” the prosecution argued.
The defense argued that Weinstein was suffering from serious health problems: “This is a new trial. It’s a new day and yours is at stake. “
Weinstein is arrested again.
He is due back in court on May 29. The trial is expected to begin sometime after Labor Day.
Harvey Weinstein is now presumed innocent.
After the hearing, Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Adaila, called the accusation and Jessica Mann’s joint presence a “publicity” stunt.
“Everyone perceives that Harvey Weinstein is now presumed innocent,” Adaila told reporters outside the courthouse.
“Jessica Mann in the courtroom today, the majority of those who oppose her are not guilty,” the jury said. Even with all of this out of place and the evidence illegal against him, the jury said, “Not guilty,” with the most serious guys opposed to him. Jessica Mann.
“So, yes, it’s a wonderful exposure and a wonderful staging through the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to have Jessica Mann in the second row today. “
Weinstein has been hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital since moving to Rikers Island from a city in upstate Rome, New York.
Adaila said Weinstein would not return to the upstate prison and said doctors would indicate where their client would be placed based on his medical condition.
The defense attorney said Weinstein got along with others while incarcerated at the Mohawk Correctional Center, 100 miles northwest of Albany.
“He’s a charismatic guy, they gave him a lot of charm, they told him a lot of stories,” Adaila said.
“He gets along very well. He had no fights, no altercations, nothing like that.
“He’s an old, poorly healthy guy who poses no risk to anyone. He’s very generous and people-friendly. “
Despite Adaila’s warm statements toward her client, more than 100 women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct since the New York Times and The New Yorker first reported on the allegations in October 2017.
Women such as actresses Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd have accused the once-influential movie mogul of appropriating the credit for young Hollywood hopefuls by promising them good fortune before sexually abusing them.
Miriam Haley, a former Swedish production assistant on the TV show Project Runway, endured hours of grueling testimony in Weinstein’s high-profile trial in 2020.
Haley sobbed on the stand as she told jurors how Weinstein raped her in his New York City apartment in 2006.
“I tried to turn him down, but he insisted,” the 44-year-old Swedish manufacturer said.
“Every time I tried to get out of bed, he would push me and hold me down. “
Haley said she continually said “no” to Weinstein and even yelled rape.
“I thought if I cried about rape, would he listen to me?If I hit harder, I could walk away from him,” she said at the time.
Haley, who previously spelled her surname Haleyi but changed it to distance herself from the traumatizing incidents, also recalled a second sexual assault that allegedly occurred in a Manhattan hotel room.
During this attack, Haley remembers being “numb. “
“I like, ‘Here we go again,'” he said.
Haley said Weinstein would call her a “woman and a whore” after the alleged assault.
She told the court she filed a complaint with police because she feared Weinstein’s strength in the entertainment industry.
Haley, who participated in the Project Runway series on a tourist visa, remembers thinking, “He had a lot more strength and resources, and I didn’t think he was lucky.
“I pretended nothing had happened and put it aside. “
Haley’s attorney, Gloria Allred, has told the U. S. Sun in the past that her consumer would testify at Weinstein’s retrial.
Jessica Mann told Newsnation she was “99% sure” she would testify again.
“I’m okay with that. . . It’s mental hell,” he said.
“It made me suffer a lot, but I’m scared. I have more to say to this man. But I need to look him in the eye once I get back in court. “
Weinstein’s defense team is contemplating his guilty verdict in Los Angeles, where he was convicted in 2022 and sentenced to 16 years in prison for the rape of Italian actress Evgeniya Chernyshova.
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