{"id":2229947,"date":"2024-04-25T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-appeals-court-tosses-harvey-weinstein-rape-conviction\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:58:59","slug":"new-york-appeals-court-tosses-harvey-weinstein-rape-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-appeals-court-tosses-harvey-weinstein-rape-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court in New York Overturns Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s Rape Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-appeals-court-tosses-harvey-weinstein-rape-conviction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2229947&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A New \u200dYork \u2064appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s 2020 rape conviction, citing &#8220;egregious&#8221; rulings\u2062 allowing unrelated allegations\u200d during testimony. The 4-3 ruling gives prosecutors the option\u2063 for a retrial. [Read more&#8230;](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed29faeec862abf0c071e8bd3574c4a3) The summary has\u2063 been revised to provide a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-hope-and-realism-offer-a-better-path-forward-than-giving-up-on-america\/\" title=\"Why Hope And Realism Offer A Better Path Forward Than Giving Up On America\">concise overview<\/a>\u200b of the text you \u2062provided. Is \u2064there anything else you would like assistance with?  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A New York appeals court moved on Thursday to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed29faeec862abf0c071e8bd3574c4a3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overturn<\/a> the 2020 rape conviction of former Miramax producer Harvey Weinstein, citing \u201cegregious\u201d rulings that allowed allegations unrelated to the charges to be introduced in testimony.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s 4-3 ruling came down in Weinstein\u2019s favor, leaving it up to prosecutors whether or not they will try him again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe conclude that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvey-weinsteins-sexual-assault-conviction-overturned-by-new-york-appeals-court\/\" title=\"New York appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault conviction\">trial court erroneously admitted testimony<\/a> of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,\u201d the decision read in part. \u201cThe remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an abuse of judicial discretion to permit untested allegations of nothing more than bad behavior that destroys a defendant\u2019s character but sheds no light on their credibility as related to the criminal charges lodged against them,\u201d the decision continued.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual flood of accusations against Weinstein \u2014 whose accusers included \u201cCharmed\u201d star Rose McGowan and others \u2014 cascaded in 2017 following a New Yorker expos\u00e9 written by Ronan Farrow. What followed was a slew of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-senate-sergeant-at-arms-dies-suddenly-ahead-of-j6-hearing\/\" title=\"Former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms dies suddenly ahead of J6 hearing\">additional accusations<\/a> against Weinstein, which sparked the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Madeline Singas penned a dissent on behalf of the minority, saying that the decision meant the court was \u201cwhitewashing the facts to conform to a he-said\/she-said narrative,\u201d following a \u201cdisturbing trend of overturning juries\u2019 guilty verdicts in cases involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-seeks-to-change-age-of-consent-to-15\/\" title=\"France Seeks To Change Age Of Consent To 15\">sexual violence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714139633045000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3NmH3N4nuN6q5SoKlosO04\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority\u2019s determination perpetuates outdated notions of sexual violence and allows predators to escape accountability,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein will remain in prison \u2014 despite the New York conviction being overturned \u2014 because his 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disgraced-film-producer-harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-16-more-years-for-sex-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conviction<\/a> in Los Angeles still stands.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 4-3 ruling on Thursday, a New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s 2020 rape conviction, criticizing the introduction of unrelated allegations during testimony. Prosecutors now have the choice to pursue a retrial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2229948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1243724352-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1243724352-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}