A New York court of appeals has upheld Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for rape, dismissing allegations by the disgraced film producer that the #MeToo trial judge harmed him by allowing women to testify on charges that they did not they were part of the criminal case.
Thursday’s ruling by a five-judge court in the state’s interim appeals court upheld a major verdict on the U.S. account of sexual misconduct by powerful figures, an era that began with a large number of allegations against Weinstein.
Weinstein, 70, is being held in California, where he was extradited last year to stand trial on charges of assaulting five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013.
He was convicted in New York in February 2020 of a criminal sexual act for forcibly having sex with a television and film production assistant in 2006 and of third-degree rape for assaulting an aspiring actor in 2013. .
He was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault following allegations by actor Annabella Sciorra of a rape in the mid-1990s.