NEW YORK — The disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein on Tuesday asked New York’s highest court to overturn his 2020 rape and sexual assault…
In a filing with the state Court of Appeals, lawyers for Weinstein accused trial judge James Burke of caving to “the pressure of an influential social movement determined to punish centuries of male misbehavior by setting an example in convicting one man, Harvey Weinstein.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“A defendant cannot be tried based on his character — but must be tried based on the conduct for which he has been accused,” Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala said in a statement.Article content Jurors in Manhattan convicted Weinstein in February 2020 of sexually assaulting a former production assistant in 2006 and raping an aspiring actress in 2013.
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