In a stinging dissent, Judge Madeline Singas wrote that the majority was “whitewashing the facts to conform to a he-said/she-said narrative,” and said the Court of Appeals was continuing a “disturbing trend of overturning juries' guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence.” -from the AP
[TheGatewayPundit.com] Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction was overturned by the New York Appeals Court on Thursday. (Screengrab image: via Sky News)
The disgraced Hollywood mogul was convicted of sexual assault and rape in 2020 during the height of the #MeToo movement.
Weinstein was also found guilty of rape in a Los Angeles sexual assault trial in 2022.
New York's high court overturned the conviction and said the remedy is a new trial.
"We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes," the court's 4-3 decision said, according to AP. "The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here
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