Harvey Weinstein, a producer in Hollywood, has petitioned the court to move his rape trial forward because he is “deadly cancer.”
The 72-year-old disgraced mogul is set to go on trial once more for allegedly having oral sex with an assistant in 2006 and sexually assaulting a future actor in 2013. On Wednesday, Weinstein appeared to be wheelchair-bound and appeared to be struggling inside the Lower Manhattan courthouse.
The MeToo retrial will begin on April 15th, according to New York judge Curtis Farber, who presided over the court hearing. Due to his terminal illness, Weinstein’s attorney Arthur Aidala requested that the trial be moved forward.
They are aware that Mr. Weinstein is a dead body in the state of New York, according to Aidala in a court filing last week. Can I try this dying man’s case first”?
Weinstein also begged the judge to be allowed out of his “hellhole” jail in Rikers Island. He said: “I’m in a serious emergency situation, I’m begging for you to move your date]forwards]. I must leave this pit as quickly as possible. Due to the busy court schedule, Judge Farber rejected the convicted sex offender’s pleas and suggested April 7.
The judge promised to monitor the progress of his other trials. A new allegation involving a woman that was not in the original case will now be added, according to Judge Farber.
Weinstein recently underwent emergency heart surgery after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia. The producer is facing a second trial on charges that he sexually assaulted a producer forcibly in 2006 and sexually assaulted a future actor in 2013. The additional charge alleges that he allegedly compelled another woman to have oral sex in a Manhattan hotel in 2006 under additional circumstances.
The woman was not a part of the first trial for the disgraced star, according to court documents, but the Manhattan district attorney’s office claimed in court documents that she had told the court a few days before the trial began. After the state’s Court of Appeals overturned his conviction in April, the prosecution reopened the case and obtained a new indictment.
In October, Judge Faber decided to combine the new indictment with the already-arrested charges in one trial. By putting off the additional charge for almost five years, Weinstein’s attorneys contend that prosecutors have prejudiced him. They suggested they make the decision to leave the claim out of his first trial so they could use it if his conviction was overturned.
Prosecutors called the suggestion “absurd”. According to the prosecution, Weinstein “would likely have characterized that timing as a vindictive and gratuitous pile-on” in their court filing. The office of the New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg claimed that the previously uncharged allegation “required a sensitive investigation” and serious thought before seeking an indictment.
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