Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is set to be retried in New York, a week after the state’s highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction in Manhattan.
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00:00 Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is set to be retried in New York a week after the state's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction in Manhattan.
00:09 The New York Court of Appeals found that the judge from the 2020 conviction made a critical mistake by allowing three women to testify about Weinstein's alleged sexual assaults.
00:18 The court said these were not part of the criminal charges against him and the prior bad acts testimony violated his right to a fair trial.
00:25 Weinstein appeared in court Wednesday, May 1, more than four years after his conviction was hailed as a milestone for the #MeToo movement.
00:33 There are more than 80 women who accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct.
00:37 He was also sentenced to 16 years following another rape trial in California.
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