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Harvey Weinstein appeals L.A. rape conviction weeks after N.Y. conviction was overturned

Weinstein is requesting a new trial in the 2022 Los Angeles case, in which he was found guilty of charges stemming from one of four women involved.

This appeal demonstrates nearly a dozen areas of brazen legal missteps that violated his right to a fair trial,” Weinstein’s publicist Juda Engelmayer said in a statement to NBC News on Thursday. The appeal rehashes the nature of the charges involving Jane Doe 1, who alleged Weinstein showed up at her hotel room uninvited and “raped her for over an hour” while she was visiting for the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival in 2013, according to the document. “The introduction of this excessive, cumulative, and remote evidence of prior ‘sexual assaults’ simply signaled to the jury that the Defendant was a bad man who should be convicted of something irrespective of whether the prosecution proved its case,” Weinstein’s lawyers wrote in the appeal.

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