Gaye Grant argues conviction for unlawful sexual relationship with a child should be quashed as women could not be held legally responsible for the crime at the timeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastHaving pleaded guilty to maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child, a former teacher now wants the conviction overturned on the basis she cannot be held legally responsible due to her...
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Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has had his conviction for sex crimes in New York overturned. The New York Court of Appeals ruled Weinstein did not receive a fair trial. The
A New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction Thursday, ordering a new trial in a stunning reversal of a landmark #MeToo case. In a 4-3 decision, the appeals court found that Weinstein's trial judge allowed prosecutors to call women who said Weinstein had assaulted them to testify, even though their accusations did not specifically relate to the entertainment mogul's charges. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted in February 2020 of...
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Disgraced Hollywood mogul won’t be released from New York prison just yet
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction and ordered
Shortly after a New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein's conviction on rape charges in Manhattan, a defense attorney in the disgraced movie mogul's Los Angeles case said the same should happen in California. If Weinstein's lawyer Mark Werksman has any doubts about whether the same legal strategy will work in both states, he didn't betray them in his comments after Thursday's victory for his client. “We faced the same fundamental unfairness in the Los Angeles case, where the judge let...
April 25 (UPI) — The New York Court of Appeals Thursday overturned film producer Harvey Weinstein‘s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial. The appeals court said in a 4-3 ruling that the trial judge in Weinstein’s New York rape case improperly allowed testimony and evidence against Weinstein that was “irrelevant” and “prejudicial” to the criminal charges he […] The post New York Appeals Court overturns Harvey Weinstein rape conviction first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
The appeals court identified additional errors and decided that Weinstein had not received a fair trial— which is true.