Harvey Weinstein requests bail pending attraction on rape conviction

Printed Oct 14, 2020 • 1 minute learn

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein arrives on the New York Felony Courtroom throughout his ongoing sexual assault trial within the Manhattan borough of New York Metropolis, New York, U.S., February 24, 2020. Photograph by CARLO ALLEGRI /REUTERS

Disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein has requested a better court docket to launch him on $2 million bail pending the result of an attraction of his New York rape conviction.

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Weinstein is at the moment serving a 23-year jail sentence after a jury convicted him of forcibly performing oral intercourse on former Venture Runway manufacturing assistant Miriam ‘Mimi’ Haleyi in 2006 and raping hairstylist Jessica Mann in 2013.

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Nevertheless, on Friday legal professionals for the previous Miramax boss cited his historical past of philanthropy and his deteriorating well being in an attraction for his launch on bail, based on court docket papers obtained by the New York Publish.

Legal professional Barry Kamins argues Weinstein had “shined a highlight on a myriad of human struggles,” together with elevating consciousness of racial injustice in The Butler, Nelson Mandela’s Lengthy Stroll to Freedom and Fruitvale Station.

“His movies engendered empathy for individuals who are stricken by disabilities that society has stigmatized and for individuals who are victimized by injustice,” Kamins wrote, calling the chief a “pressure in philanthropy”.

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Weinstein has “critical medical circumstances” for which he should take 20 completely different drugs, based on the bail utility. He’s now confined to a wheelchair and is shedding imaginative and prescient in each eyes because of his diabetes, the papers declare, and he additionally has an enlarged aorta and prostate.

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Though he examined constructive for Covid-19 in March and was quarantined for 23 days, there stay considerations that he might contract the virus once more in jail, the papers state.

Along with his present sentence, Weinstein is at the moment awaiting extradition to Los Angeles in reference to offences associated to 3 different victims and, earlier this month, he was hit with six extra legal costs associated to 3 alleged rapes in Beverly Hills, California.

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