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Actor Ashley Judd discusses overturned Weinstein conviction: "Sexual violence is such a thief"

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is still serving 16 years in a separate California case, which is expecting an appeal that could use similar arguments to that of the overturned New York conviction.

A lot of it was sexual harassment as you experienced and not the kind of criminal violent acts that can land you in jail," Kantor said. "So to bolster their case, prosecutors brought in additional witnesses, women who had experienced terrible things at the hands of Weinstein," Kantor explained. "Consistent with this law, our office sought the admission of propensity evidence of Mr. Weinstein's sexual assaults in other jurisdictions."

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