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Judge Sets New Date for Harvey Weinstein Retrial
Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape in a 2020 trial, where he was sentenced to 23 years in prison
The New York Times and the New Yorker first published investigative pieces in 2017 that accused disgruntled movie producer Harvey Weinstein of decades of sexual assault and harassment. “Today’s decision is a major step back in holding those accountable for acts of sexual violence,” attorney Douglas H. Wigdor, who represented eight of Weinstein’s victims, told Us Weekly in a statement. Judge Madeline Singas also explained that the majority was “whitewashing the facts to conform to a he-said/she-said narrative” and the appeal continued a “disturbing trend of overturning juries’ guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence.”
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