Saturday, June 8, 2024 6:40PMHarvey Weinstein's lawyers argue in an appeal that he did not get a fair trial when he was convicted of rape and sexual assault in Los Angeles in 2022 and sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Weinstein's lawyers argued that the judge deprived him of "his constitutional rights to present a defense and led to a miscarriage of justice." "The introduction of this excessive, cumulative, and remote evidence of prior 'sexual assaults' simply signaled to the jury that the Defendant was a bad man who should be convicted of something irrespective of whether the prosecution proved its case," the filing said.
The arguments are similar to those made by Weinstein's attorneys in a motion for a new trial that Lench rejected before his sentencing. "Weinstein's appeal makes the same tired arguments that he previously made multiple times, without success, to the trial court," Chernyshova's attorney, David Ring, said in an email Friday. "We are of the strong opinion that the trial court vetted the evidence appropriately and made all the correct decisions in its evidentiary rulings. We are confident that Weinstein's appeal will be denied and he will spend many years in prison.