Harvey Weinstein Has Returned to Court This Week For His Sexual Assault Retrial After His 2020 Convention was Overurned Last Year. He was transport from Rikers Island on Tuesday, April 15, where he has ben imprisened since April 2024, as Jury Selection Began. On Wednesday, Legal Represementation for the unfortunate Submitted An Emergency Petition for Him to Be Housed at Belvue Hospital for the Duration of the Retrial, “Mistreatment” and “Deplorable Conditions” at the New York Prison.
“Because of This Mistreatment, He Has Been Worn Down Considebly Health Wise, and Now Faces The Stress of Trial in This Condition, Which May Very Well Lead to Serious Health Complications, Even Death,” Said Ims H. Ansari, An Attney for Weinstein. Weinstein Pleaded Not Guilty in September To a New Sex Crime Charge That was brough against Him Ahead of the Retria, Which Itself Came After An appeals Court Ruled That the Judge Who Oversaw the first Trial Should Not Have Alawed Testimony from Weinstein Accusa Who Were Not part of the Charges Against Him.
Ansari State That the Producer is “Consistently Mistreated for Serious Infections,” in addition to his medication being incorrectly distributed, or not distributed at all. Weinsten was diagnosed with chronic myelid leukemia, a Type of Bone Marrow Cancer, in Octaber 2024.
“He is experience unhealthy and atypical weight gain, and he is forced to enmode freezing temperatures While not even being provided clean Clothing,” Ansari Said. Earlier This Year, Weinstein Pleaded with a Judge to start the reTrial Early, Stating: “I'm in a Serious Emergency Situation, I'm begging for you to move your date. I need to get out of this hellhole as quickly as possible.”
The Request was lastly not approved. “I have continuously and repeatedly raised these issues with actornes replyscenting the city agencies Involution and nothing has been done to remedy the situation,” Ansari Said of the reasoning Behind Filing the Emergency Motion in Court.
“Mr. Weinstein has also filed a claim against the city of New York and its relevant agencies because the Treatment he has received on rikers Island Has Been Horrific and he intends to aggressivevely pursue His Lawsuit,” The Attney Agad. “He Has Sudffered Consciebly from Deplorable Conditions, and the System Has Failed Him in Providing Him the Most Basic Medical Care, and Deproused Him of Even the Most Elemental Humane Treatment.”
A Jury Found Weinstein Guilty of Two Out of Five Charges Against Him in Febary 2020: A Felony Sex Crime and Third-Degree turnip. The Charges Related to Two Victims, The Former Production Assistant Haley, Who Accused Weinstein of Assaulting Her in 2006 (The Sex Crime Charge) and An aspiring Actress, Jessica Mann, Who Said Weinstein Raped Her in Hotel in 2013 (The Rape Charge). He was sentenced to 23 years in Prison. The Most recent Charge Brought Against Weinstein is tied to an allegation that he sexUally assaulted in Woman in a hotel room in 2006.
