Harvey Winstein’s re -trial in New York begins on charges of sexual assault. What is different this time?

Warning: This article may affect those who have suffered from sexual violence or know someone affected by it.

Five years after Harvey Winstein’s conviction of rape and transferred to prison on handcuffs, the former cinema pole returns to the Manhattan Court on Tuesday to conduct a new trial covering many of the same allegations – in addition to those that have not been tried before.

Winstein pushed the date of re -trial earlier, as he was entering and outside the hospital regularly for a variety of health problems

Now 73, he was out of the time when he was among the strongest men in the field of cinema.

Miramax’s Mogl Mogul won, then Weinstein won 81 Academy Awards nomination starting in 1988, including six best photo winners. While his bullying behavior was an open secret in the film industry, a pair of opponents published a disbursement days by the New York Times and New Yorker in 2017 witnessed many allegations of sexual assault at the level of women, and in some cases.

Articles, in addition to a tweet from actress Alyssa Milano a few days later, got the #Metoo movement and encouraged more women to announce allegations of predatory behavior by men through industries.

Within a few days, Winstein was launched from his company and his wife began divorce procedures. A major jury in New York was directed in the spring of 2018, which is the first step towards his criminal trial.

To re -trial, Winstein acknowledged that he was not guilty and denied that he had raped anyone or sexually assaulted him. Prosecutors are not allowed to re -attempted Winstein on certain charges that he was acquitted during his first trial.

Why is there a new trial?

The state’s Appeal Court delivered Winztein’s convictions and a 23 -year prison sentence and ordered a new trial after it found that the original was tilt by the “terrible” judicial rulings and harmful certificates.

In Resolution 4-3, the court said that the judges James Burke at the time denied that Winztein was completely fair by allowing three women to testify about allegations that they were not part of the case.

The court described the allegations against Winztein as “horrific, shameless and disgusting behavior”, but warned that “the destruction of the defendant’s personality under the guise of the prosecution” did not justify some evidence and trial certificates.

What is the new charge he faces?

Winztein faces allegations that have not been heard in the first trial, as a result of a criminal sexual charge for allegedly having oral sex on a woman at the Manhattan Hotel in 2006.

Prosecutors said that the woman came to them a few days before the first trial of Winztein, but she was not part of this case. They said that they did not follow up on the women’s allegations after the conviction of Winztein, but they reconsidered and secured a new indictment after the first ruling.

Winztein’s lawyers claim that general prosecutors should not wait for nearly five years to bring the additional charge.

What allegations will be heard again?

Winstein is re -equipped with two accusations of his original trial.

He faces one task of criminal sex by claiming oral sex by force to the auxiliary film and television production.
Myriam Haley, a former production assistant in Winstein Product The runway projectHe witnessed in the trial of 2020 that he pushed her to a bed in his apartment in Manhattan in June 2006 and was forced to have sex by mouth, without tightening her kicks and calls.

Haley, who walked in the name of Mimi Haley, admitted that she was in contact with Winstein, exchanged warm messages with him, and accepted an invitation to his room in the hotel two weeks after the alleged attack, as he pulled her to bed for sex. Under the New York Law at that time, Winztein was not charged with rape regarding Halley’s allegations.

Winstein also faces one of the third -class rape of allegedly attacking Jessica Man in a hotel room in Manhattan in 2013.

Man, who said that she saw Winstein as a “false father” character while following the acting profession after an approximate education, witnessed in the trial of 2020 that he was trapped in the hotel room, and ordered her to take off this while he was waving over her and then raped her. She claims that Winstein raped her again after eight months at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she worked as hair hair.

Man was also in contact with Winstein after the alleged attack, and she witnessed that she sent him e -mail messages, because “the ego was very fragile,” he made me feel safe, and worship him in this sense. “

The Associated Press generally does not define people who claim sexual assault unless they agreed to naming, as Haley and Man did.

If Winstein is acquitted in this trial, will he be released?

no. And Winztein refused last year to request a delivery from California, where he was convicted of rape, oral gathering and the number of other sexual misconduct that includes a woman known as Jin -1, after a two -month trial in Los Angeles in late 2022.

He was sentenced early in the following year to 16 years in prison, which would have started after the New York penalty.

Winstein’s condemnation in California is subject to review, but legal experts said in the wake of the cancellation of New York’s rule, that the two countries have rules that differ regarding the testimony about previous actions and behavior.

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