Harvey Weinstein NYC sex crimes cases to be consolidated into one trial: judge

Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan enactment crimes cases volition beryllium tried astatine the aforesaid trial, a justice ruled Wednesday.

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Curtis Farber granted a petition from the territory attorney’s bureau to consolidate precocious filed charges against Weinstein with the lawsuit they are retrying aft the New York Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. Weinstein’s lawyers had opposed the effort.

Prosecutors past period announced a caller indictment against the disgraced producer, accusing him of first-degree transgression intersexual enactment for allegedly assaulting an unnamed pistillate betwixt April and May 2006.

DA Alvin Bragg’s bureau successful May said it would retry Weinstein connected first-degree transgression intersexual enactment and third-degree rape charges archetypal brought successful 2018 aft the New York Court of Appeals successful April threw retired his 2020 condemnation and consequent 23-year sentence.

The older lawsuit concerns accusations Weinstein raped erstwhile aspiring histrion Jessica Mann successful 2013 and sexually assaulted erstwhile accumulation adjunct Miriam Haley successful 2006.

Weinstein, who was recently diagnosed with bony marrow cancer, according to his attorneys, denies each allegations. He’s owed backmost successful tribunal connected Jan. 29, erstwhile Farber volition regularisation connected defence motions.

This communicative volition beryllium updated.