NEW YORK — New York’s highest courtroom has agreed to listen to an attraction from Harvey Weinstein over his 2020 rape conviction.
A spokesman for the Court docket of Appeals mentioned Wednesday that oral arguments would probably be held someday subsequent yr, after the choice to listen to the case was granted Aug. 19.
Weinstein was convicted in February 2020 in New York of forcibly performing oral intercourse on a TV and movie manufacturing assistant in 2006 and raping an aspiring actress in 2013. The 70-year-old was sentenced to 23 years in jail and is at present in custody in California awaiting trial on different assault costs.
In June, an intermediate-level appeals courtroom in New York upheld the conviction, rejecting the previous film mogul’s declare that the trial choose unfairly let in testimony about accusations outdoors of the case.
Weinstein’s publicist, Juda Engelmayer, mentioned, “We’re hopeful and grateful for this uncommon alternative.”
The Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace declined to remark.
