Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein enjoyed a huge legal victory Thursday after New York’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction of two felony sexual assaults.
The 71-year-old Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years and currently resides in a Rome, New York, prison.
The far-left New York Times reports that by a 4-3 vote, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge should not have allowed “prosecutors to call as witnesses a series of women who said Mr. Weinstein had assaulted them — but whose accusations were not part of the charges against him.”
The appeals court identified additional errors and decided that Weinstein had not received a fair trial— which is true. This should’ve been a 7-0 decision to overturn.
I don’t like the result but the appeals judge is correct. The original trial judge ignored the law and the rules of evidence. The same thing is happening in Manhattan with Judge Juan Merchan in the Trump trial.
That particular prison used to be the Rome State School, where up to 3000 severely to profoundly intellectually disabled wards of the state lived and sometimes worked. It was transformed into a state prison after the 1980s purge of mental hospitals.