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<blockquote data-quote="WPLG" data-source="post: 35426" data-attributes="member: 158">A New York appellate court has upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction, rejecting the disgraced movie mogul’s claims that the judge at the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-ca-state-wire-us-news-67057b46fcd3f1183cf6a699a399c886" target="_blank">landmark #MeToo trial</a> prejudiced him by allowing women to testify about allegations that weren’t part of the criminal case.The ruling Thursday by a five-judge panel in the state’s intermediate appeals court affirmed the milestone verdict in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era that began with <a href="https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-business-academy-awards-harvey-weinstein-b019b5ddda2c2b0a0980b270f9c49e1c" target="_blank">a flood of allegations against Weinstein.</a>Weinstein, 70, is jailed in California, where <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-arts-and-entertainment-california-extradition-245876c923ba357d7f6f4b0fef649ca8" target="_blank">he was extradited last year</a> and is awaiting trial on charges he assaulted five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013.Weinstein was convicted in New York in February 2020 of a criminal sex act for forcibly performing oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006 and rape in the third degree for an attack on an aspiring actress in 2013.He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault stemming from actor Annabella Sciorra’s allegations of a mid-1990s rape.The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault unless they speak publicly about their allegations, as Sciorra has done.<a href="https://www.local10.com/entertainment/2022/06/02/harvey-weinsteins-rape-conviction-upheld-by-appeals-court/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WPLG, post: 35426, member: 158"] A New York appellate court has upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction, rejecting the disgraced movie mogul’s claims that the judge at the [URL='https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-ca-state-wire-us-news-67057b46fcd3f1183cf6a699a399c886']landmark #MeToo trial[/URL] prejudiced him by allowing women to testify about allegations that weren’t part of the criminal case. The ruling Thursday by a five-judge panel in the state’s intermediate appeals court affirmed the milestone verdict in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures — an era that began with [URL='https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-business-academy-awards-harvey-weinstein-b019b5ddda2c2b0a0980b270f9c49e1c']a flood of allegations against Weinstein.[/URL] Weinstein, 70, is jailed in California, where [URL='https://apnews.com/article/business-arts-and-entertainment-california-extradition-245876c923ba357d7f6f4b0fef649ca8']he was extradited last year[/URL] and is awaiting trial on charges he assaulted five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013. Weinstein was convicted in New York in February 2020 of a criminal sex act for forcibly performing oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006 and rape in the third degree for an attack on an aspiring actress in 2013. He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault stemming from actor Annabella Sciorra’s allegations of a mid-1990s rape. The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assault unless they speak publicly about their allegations, as Sciorra has done. [url="https://www.local10.com/entertainment/2022/06/02/harvey-weinsteins-rape-conviction-upheld-by-appeals-court/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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