In this file photo taken on October 4, 2022 former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California. New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, a shock reversal in one of the defining cases of the #MeToo movement.
Bombshell allegations broke against the Academy Award winning producer in 2017, launching the #MeToo movement that paved the way for women to fight back against sexual violence in the workplace. Weinstein is not the first high-profile man convicted in the wake of the #MeToo movement to have his conviction overturned.
The Court of Appeals’ decision to overturn the conviction rested on the fact the trial judge allowed prosecutors to rely on so-called “Molineux witnesses,” who were allowed to testify about their experiences despite not being part of the charges brought against the defendant, in an exception to the normal rules surrounding evidence.
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