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“I can’t imagine any situation where he’s retried and acquitted,” one attorney said.

To bolster their case, Manhattan prosecutors called three other accusers — Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff, and Lauren Young — to testify about Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. He told the New York Court of Appeals that the judge’s decision permitting these three women to testify about alleged prior bad acts solely served to smear Weinstein before the jury, making a fair trial all but impossible. “This is the type of thing if a judge lets it in, it’s really only reversible for an abuse of discretion — it’s really hard to prove.” And as for a retrial in New York, Rahmani said the outlook was good for prosecutors if there were a way to modify how prior bad-acts witnesses came into the case.

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