New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial
“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,” the court’s 4-3 decision said. “The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.”
The court’s majority said “it is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant’s character but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges lodged against them.”
[Bragg’s hush money prosecutors just had their “Sandoval” hearing and were granted more leeway than I expected if and when they cross-examine Trumpie. “Bad acts” evidence is extremely explosive and can blow up a trial, and in the prosecutors’ faces on appeal.]
Weinstein, 72, has been serving a 23-year sentence in a New York prison…
