NewsUSAHarvey Weinstein will be tried again for several crimes of rape and sexual assault

Harvey Weinstein will be tried again for several crimes of rape and sexual assault

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Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein is set to stand trial again in Los Angeles for sex crimes two years after he was sentenced in New York to 23 years in prison on a rape and assault charge.

As he did two years ago, on this occasion he has again declared himself innocent of the numerous charges for sexual crimes against him, including four of rape and another of assault that would have been committed between 2004 and 2013.

Weinstein, under arrest at the medical center in a Los Angeles jail, has also been charged in the UK with two counts of assaulting a woman between July and August 1996.

In 2020, two years after the accusations against him and for which the #MeToo movement was unleashed came to light, a New York jury sentenced the once-powerful producer to 23 years in prison on a third-degree rape charge. committed on Jessica Mann, and a first-degree sexual offense on production assistant Mimi Haley.

However, the jury – made up of five women and seven men – acquitted the disgraced movie mogul of the most serious charges, rape in the first degree and, especially, that of predatory sexual conduct that could have brought him a life sentence.

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