The disgraced movie mogul objected after Judge Curtis Farber said the retrial would start April 15, imploring him to swap with another, unrelated trial the judge has in March
Harvey Weinstein appears in State Supreme Court for a hearing in his sexual assault case on Jan. 29 in New York.Harvey Weinstein begged a judge Wednesday to hold his #MeToo retrial as soon as possible, telling him “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on” with cancer, heart issues and harsh conditions at New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex.
“I’m asking and begging you, your honour, to move your trial,” Weinstein said, suggesting that even a week’s head start would be helpful. “I’m in a serious emergency situation. I am begging the court to move your date,” Weinstein said, telling the judge he wanted to “get out of this hellhole as quickly as possible.”
“They know that Mr. Weinstein is dying of cancer and is an innocent man right now in the State of New York,” Aidala argued in court last week. He pleaded to prosecutors: “Can I try this dying man’s case first?” Prosecutors said they did not pursue the women’s allegations after Weinstein was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but they revisited them and secured a new indictment after the state’s Court of Appeals threw out his conviction last April.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said the previously uncharged allegation “required a sensitive investigation” and serious contemplation before seeking an indictment, in part because there are no eyewitnesses to the alleged assault and no scientific or other physical evidence.
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