The Supreme Court of the State of New York will define on Tuesday which condemns will receive the film producer, declared guilty of a crime of sexual aggression in the first degree against an old production assistant. He already has a 16 -year prison sentence in Los Angeles.
The renowned film producer Harvey Weinsteinone of the most important figures of Hollywood During the nineties and two thousand, he will be sentenced on Tuesday in a new trial for a crime of sexual aggression in first degree against an old production assistant, Miriam Haley, who accused him of forcing her practice oral sex in 2006.
Currently, Weinstein has a condemnation of the Supreme Court of the State of New York five years ago in the same case although the sentence was revoked last year by a Procedural error. This Tuesday the new penalty that could reach the 25 years in jailto which the six years already fulfilled will be deducted.
During the new trial, which lasted six weeks, there were more than thirty witnesses and photographs and emails were published again where important figures were mentioned, from Bill or Hillary Clinton to the Queen Elizabeth II, through Gwyneth Paltrow.
Weinstein’s defense, led by the lawyer Arthur Aidalahe already said that they will appeal the guilt verdict for the Haley case because, according to them, it was “a unfair judgment“Where” some jury members profirmed threats “to achieve an unfavorable resolution against the Hollywood architect.
In 2023, Weinstein was already sentenced to 16 years in prison in Los Angeles. Since the multiple accusations against him were disseminated, the producer always argued that they “related” to these women with their consent and that, according to the account of the audiovisual businessman, It was they who were looking for him to ascend and prosper in the Hollywood industry.
However, the victims – there are more than 80 complainants – assured that due to their relevance in the film industry, it was impossible to reject it if they wanted to continue their careers and that he took advantage of his position of authority.
The first public accusations arrived only in 2016 from an article published in The New York Times and from there new stories began to emerge. These complaints promoted the #MeToo movement in 2017, which then reached a global dimension denouncing this type of abuse dynamics in the heart of Hollywood.
Judgment against Harvey Weinstein: the processes against them continue
On June 11, a popular jury declared the co -founder of the study guilty Miramax – Producer in charge of successes such as ‘Shakespeare in Love’ or ‘Pulp fiction’ and with 68 Oscar awards to his credit- for the crime denounced by Haley although he considered him not guilty of another accusation of sexual aggression in the first degree. This demand was from the Polish model Kaja Sokola, who said he met the tycoon when he was only 16 years old and that he forced her to masturbate.
Jury negotiations, composed of 7 women and 5 menThey were very turbulent. Even the president of the body reported physical threats by another of the panel members, so the judge in charge Curtis Farber He decided to declare the trial for rape in third grade that simultaneously also faced Weinstein.
The imputation of this position had reached him for the accusations of actress Jessica Mann, who assured that he violated her in a New York hotel in 2013.
The Prosecutor’s Office announced weeks ago that he plans to judge Weinstein again for this position and that Mann “is willing and wishes to continue” with the process.
Source: Ambito
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