Harvey Weinstein is back in court in New York for a hearing ahead of his retrial on rape charges stemming from his landmark #MeToo case, officials say.
Harvey Weinstein is back in court in New York on Wednesday for a hearing ahead of his retrial on sex crimes charges stemming from his landmark #MeToo case.
After the hearing got underway, Judge Curtis Farber granted a prosecution request to consolidate that case and a newer charge into a single trial.
The former movie mogul was facing retrial on two sex crime charges after the state’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction earlier this year. Then in September, he was hit with a new charge accusing him of another assault. He has pleaded not guilty.
Weinstein was convicted on charges that he forcibly performed oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006, and rape in the third degree for an attack on an aspiring actor in 2013.
