Headline : Harvey Weinstein’s Rape Conviction Was Just Overturned

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Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction was overturned by New York State’s highest court on Thursday, April 25. The court said in its decision: “The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.”

Weinstein’s lawyers had argued before the New York State Court of Appeals on February 14 that Weinstein “did not get a fair trial” after the Manhattan District Attorney’s office was allowed to introduce numerous other accusations unrelated to the charges. The appeals court agreed in a 4–3 decision.

“Defendant was convicted by a jury for various sexual crimes against three named complainants and, on appeal, claims that he was judged, not on the conduct for which he was indicted but on irrelevant, prejudicial, and untested allegations of prior bad acts. We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes because that testimony served no material non-propensity purpose,” the court said in its decision in part.

“The synergistic effect of these errors was not harmless,” the judges wrote. “The only evidence against defendant was the complainants’ testimony, and the result of the court’s rulings, on the one hand, was to bolster their credibility and diminish defendant’s character before the jury. On the other hand, the threat of a cross-examination highlighting these untested allegations undermined defendant’s right to testify.”

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