The New York Court of Appeals has agreed to review the Hollywood mogul's 2020 conviction that put him in prison for 23 years.
, which put him behind bars for nearly a quarter-century, will be reviewed by the full New York Court of Appeals after its chief judge decided there was a question of law that needed to be addressed by the panel.
The Miramax co-founder was sentenced to 23 years in a New York state prison a month after his February 2020 conviction, bringing an end to a years-long saga that helped spawn thesexually assaulting five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills The lower Court of Appeals determined that the women’s testimony did address the prosecution’s allegation that the producer did not view the women as “romantic partners or friends.” But Weinstein’s team argued that was an extreme departure from the panel’s prior rulings. In their appeal, his lawyers argued the jury was unfairly influenced by the decision of New York Supreme Court Judge James Burke to allow testimony from “prior bad acts” witnesses.
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