Los Angeles judge again rejects one of 11 sexual assault counts in an indictment of Harvey Weinstein.
On Thursday, she found that neither of two attempts at an amended complaint from prosecutors solved the problem, and rejected the count again.
Lench gave prosecutors a glimmer of hope on the dismissed count, saying that if they reconvene the grand jury and get it to return a new indictment for it, she may accept it. But she offered no specific instructions.The rejected count dates to May 2010. Weinstein was first charged with it in January 2020, before the statute of limitations had expired. Prosecutors then got an indictment from a grand jury on an identical count six months later, when the time had lapsed.
“The people are grasping to try to save something that is unsalvageable,” Jackson said in court. “They did it, they blew it, they can't fix it.”While the count is a small part of the case, dismissing it removes one of five accusers from Weinstein’s forthcoming trial.
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