{"id":390089,"date":"2021-04-05T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=390089"},"modified":"2021-04-05T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T22:58:31","slug":"harvey-weinstein-appeals-sex-crimes-conviction-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvey-weinstein-appeals-sex-crimes-conviction-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein Appeals Sex Crimes Conviction In New York"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fharvey-weinstein-appeals-sex-crimes-conviction-in-new-york%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=390089&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-356.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, Harvey Weinstein\u2019s lawyers submitted <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20580246\/weinstein-appeal-brief.pdf\">an appeal<\/a>&nbsp;of their client\u2019s conviction, stating various reasons as to why they believe Weinstein was not given a fair trial and is entitled to a new one.<\/p>\n<p>At 166 pages, the legal document lays out the lawyers\u2019 arguments, stating that the trial court that put Weinstein in jail was too \u201ccavalier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also point to one of the jurors in the trial that they argue should have been removed. The juror \u2014 Juror no. 11 \u2014 had previously written a fictional book that included predatory older men. The lawyers argued, \u201cJuror No. 11 was unqualified to sit as a juror, notwithstanding any promise by her to be fair. In addition, based on the imminent publication of her book, she had a pecuniary motive to convict the defendant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein\u2019s lawyers also discussed the judge\u2019s decision to permit testimony from women whose accusations did not result in charges in the New York case, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-trials-harvey-weinstein-manhattan-courts-4535e9bf0c8affed775236f58e6be4d5\">The Associated Press.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeinstein\u2019s trial was overwhelmed by excessive, random, and highly&nbsp;dubious prior bad act evidence, none of which shed light on disputed issues relevant to the charged offenses,\u201d Weinstein\u2019s lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>They continued, \u201cBecause the evidence on the charged offenses was weak, the prosecution inundated the jury with copious tales of alleged misconduct (much of which was not criminal in nature) that served no legitimate evidentiary purpose but merely depicted Weinstein as loathsome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers wrote in the brief that Weinstein\u2019s \u201csentence was unduly harsh and excessive\u201d and \u201cthe verdicts of guilt were against the weight of the evidence and, as to the third degree rape, was insufficient as a matter of law,\u201d among other arguments.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein was convicted of a criminal sex act and rape in the third degree in February of last year, but was acquitted of first-degree rape and two counts of predatory sexual assault \u2014 charges that stemmed from accusations made about incidents in the mid-1990s. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/03\/11\/814051801\/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-23-years-in-prison\">NPR<\/a> reporting in March of last year, Weinstein was sentenced to prison for 20 years because of the criminal sex act, with three additional years for the rape conviction. At the time, Weinstein\u2019s lawyers were unhappy with the result of the trial, especially as the movie producer was acquitted of other charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/03\/11\/814051801\/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-23-years-in-prison\">NPR<\/a> reported at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>Weinstein\u2019s legal team cited this mixed verdict in a letter to the court, arguing that anything above the mandatory minimum of five years \u201cis likely to constitute a de facto life sentence.\u201d And after the 23-year sentence was handed down Wednesday, his lawyers labeled it \u201cobscene.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat number spoke to the pressure of movements and the public. That number did not speak to the evidence that came out of trial. That number did not speak to the testimony that we heard,\u201d defense attorney Donna Rotunno told reporters outside the courthouse afterward, adding: \u201cI think the judge caved, just as I believe the jury caved.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weinstein faces additional charges in California for \u201cassaulting five women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills from 2004 to 2013,\u201d the AP reported. However, his extradition has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Weinstein had a right to a fair trial by an impartial jury,\u201d lawyers Barry Kamins, John Leventhal and Diana Fabi-Samson wrote in the document.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trial court should have exercised the utmost vigilance in protecting this most important right of the defendant,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein claims that he is not guilty and that all sexual activity performed was consensual.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Harvey Weinstein\u2019s lawyers submitted an appeal\u00a0of their client\u2019s conviction, stating various reasons as to why they believe Weinstein was not given a fair trial and is entitled to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311704,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-356.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Harvey Weinstein Appeals Sex Crimes Conviction In New York","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-356.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Harvey Weinstein Appeals Sex Crimes Conviction In New York","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390089","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}