The appeals court found that procedural errors had been made during his trial. Harvey Weinstein received a 23-year prison sentence.
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It is one of the most emblematic trials of the #MeToo movement. In a decision rendered Thursday, April 25, a New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for rape and sexual assault which had been handed down against him in 2020 by a New York court. The former film producer received a 23-year prison sentence.
The appeals court found that procedural errors had been made during this trial and ordered a new trial. Testimonies relating to acts other than those committed against the complainants had in particular been admitted “wrongly”, according to one of the judges of the court of appeal. However, these testimonies had “paints a highly damaging image” of the accused.
“The solution to these shocking errors is a new trial”, ordered this judge. In addition to this conviction in New York, the former Hollywood producer, aged 72, was sentenced in 2023 to 16 years in prison for rape by a court in Los Angeles. The revelations about his sexual predatory behavior had been at the origin of the #MeToo movement.
