The lawyers of former King of the Cinema Harvey Weinstein, who was reached since Tuesday, April 15 for sexual violation and aggression in New York, asked the court that he could sleep in the hospital and not in prison during the trial due to health problems, they announced on Wednesday.
“Harvey Weinstein suffers from cancer and other serious affections, but their drugs are poorly managed, if (…) it must withstand frozen temperatures and not even receive clean clothes” on the island of Rikers, the prison of a disaster reputation in which he holds it, denounced his lawyer Imran Hansari in a decrease.
In a document transmitted to justice, the lawyer evokes the leukemia from which the defendant suffers, 73, but also his diabetes, thyroid problems, obesity, low back and sciatica. So many problems that, according to him, justify that it is under medical observation at Bellevue Hospital in New York, where it has already been urgently transferred in recent months.
Cancellation of his conviction and new trial
Harvey Weinstein, whose autumn led to the beginning of the World Ola #Metoo in 2017, found the bank accused on Tuesday, April 15 in New York during a new trial for rape and sexual assault after the resonant cancellation of his conviction last year. He decreased, attended the trial in a wheelchair and his lawyers have already denounced several times the lack of attention in prison.
Harvey Weinstein must be rejected by the sexual aggression of former Mimi Haleyi production assistant, in 2006, and the violation of the aspiring actress Jessica Mann, in 2013. He was declared guilty of these facts in 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
But in April 2024, a Court of Appeals annulled the entire procedure claiming that the court had indicated other alleged victims about the facts for which the former producer was not accused.
The trial will also be related to a new position for sexual assault in 2006 at a hotel in Manhattan, with an alleged victim who remains anonymous at the moment but will testify under his name, said his lawyer Lindsay Goldbrum.
Harvey Weinstein, producer of innumerable independent film successes is still arrested, because he was also sentenced to California to 16 years in prison in 2023 in a separate archive of rape and sexual aggression. This Wednesday, the jury selection process is still in progress.
Source: BFM TV
