Weinstein LA: 16 more years – appeal
2 May, 2023
Harvey Weinstein has hired California-based attorney Michael Freedman, who will work alongside Jennifer Bonjean, the criminal defense attorney who got Bill Cosby’s conviction overturned, and will act as Weinstein’s lead counsel for his West Coast appeal. Weinstein is now serving his East Coast prison sentence at Mohawk Correctional Facility in the city of Rome, N.Y., which is a medium security state prison for men. He had been in L.A. County Jail since July 2021 when he was extradited to the West Coast, but prior to his L.A. trial, he was housed at the Wende Correctional Facility in upstate New York, which was maximum security.
[February 23 2023 ]
Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood mogul already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, was sentenced in Los Angeles Thursday to an additional 16 years in prison for charges of rape and sexual assault.
Prior to the sentence, Weinstein spoke in court and continued to deny any wrongdoing, calling the case a “setup.”
[January 9 2023 Sentencing day now February 23 ]
In total, nearly 90 women including Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Salma Hayek have accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault.
Sentencing postponed pending motion for new trial.
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[January 8 2023]
Harvey Weinstein is due to be sentenced in Los Angeles on Monday after a jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault. He faces up to 18 additional years in prison. The California conviction will ensure Weinstein stays in prison, even if, like Bill Cosby, his earlier high-profile conviction is overturned.
[December 19 2022 guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault ]
Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault in a Los Angeles court – nearly three years after the mogul was sentenced for sex crimes in New York City.
The verdicts were delivered Monday by a West Coast panel of nine men and three women, who were unable to reach a decision on several counts, including those leveled by the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, who alleged Weinstein raped her during an encounter in 2005.
Weinstein’s jury was hung on all counts against Newsom.
Jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on two charges related to Siebel Newsom’s allegations, but they convicted Weinstein on counts related to another accuser. Siebel Newsom hailed that result for ensuring Weinstein would “never be able to rape another woman” and “spend the rest of his life behind bars where he belongs.”
[September 20 2021
Weinstein pleaded not guilty in a downtown L.A. courtroom to 11 counts, including a restored charge of sexual battery by restraint that had been dismissed by a judge.
Weinstein is charged with sexually assaulting five women at L.A. area hotels from 2004 to 2013.
Overall, he faces four counts each of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation, two counts of sexual battery by restraint and one count of sexual penetration by use of force.
The latest grand jury indictment, handed up Aug. 18, charges Weinstein again with the challenged count of sexual battery by restraint against a woman in May 2010. It marked the third time the prosecution has asked the grand jury to amend the indictment against the 69-year-old Weinstein, who was initially indicted in March on the 11 counts involving the five women.
[August 13 2021 Harvey Weinstein sexual battery by restraint count rejected ]
Judge Lisa B. Lench first dismissed the count of sexual battery by restraint as too old and outside the statute of limitations two weeks ago, but allowed the district attorney’s office to amend the allegation against the 69-year-old former movie mogul and convicted rapist.
On August 12 2021, she found that neither of two attempts at an amended complaint from prosecutors solved the problem, and rejected the count again.
[July 29 2021 in Twin Towers jail ]
Weinstein is being held without bail in the Twin Towers jail in downtown Los Angeles, and he was present at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center for a hearing on July 29 2021.
Harvey Weinstein’s bid to dismiss two counts of sexual assault against the former movie producer in his Los Angeles trial have been rejected by a judge after Weinstein’s attorneys claimed they were precluded by the statute of limitations.
Judge Sergio Tapia II told prosecutors that a third count of sexual battery by restraint, or Count 5, would need to be amended, which the defense also challenged over statute of limitations.
[July 21 2021 in LA ]
He pleads not guilty, physical evaluation granted
[July 20 2021]
Harvey Weinstein has been extradited to California. “This morning at approximately 9:25 (AM ET) custody of Mr. Harvey Weinstein was handed over to the appropriate officials for transport to the state of California per a court order,” a New York State Department of Corrections spokesman confirmed in a prepared statement.
[July 10 2021]
Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition in the Los Angeles Superior Court to prevent the Los Angeles County District Attorney from transporting Mr. Weinstein to Los Angeles until he can receive the medical care he desperately needs in New York.”
He is suffering from a severe cataract in his right eye and an active lesion in his left eye, and that in order to avoid going blind, he needs treatment that could take six to nine months. In their response filed this week, prosecutors said that the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department can provide adequate care, and that the D.A.’s office has no problem with the 120-day deadline to start the trial. Los Angeles prosecutors have 120 days to bring Weinstein to trial once he is transferred,
“The People are ready to bring Petitioner to trial,” wrote Deputy District Attorney Cassandra Thorpe.
[June 15 2021]
Harvey Weinstein can be extradited to California to face additional charges after several delays, a New York judge has ruled. Erie County prosecutors said they had been in contact with L.A. County authorities, and it is unlikely they will seek to transport Weinstein to California until mid-July.
The former movie producer appeared via video link at a court hearing on Tuesday (15 June) in Erie County, New York. He has been held at Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo.
[April 30 2021 in 30 days? ]
Harvey Weinstein faces rape and sexual assault charges in California.
“30 days from now, without some other relief, he’s ordered to go,” said Colleen Gable, an assistant district attorney in Erie County, New York, where Weinstein is imprisoned following his rape conviction in Manhattan.
A legal technicality over the way the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office filed paperwork against Weinstein threatened to delay extradition but prosecutors filed new paperwork and the judge signaled extradition would move forward absent a challenge by the defense.
[April 30 2021 indicted: oral copulation, sexual battery, sexual penetration ]
Harvey Weinstein, 67, The L.A. indictment returned by a grand jury upholds four counts of forcible rape, four counts of forcible oral copulation, two counts of sexual battery and one count of sexual penetration by force connected to the alleged assaults of five women from 2004 to 2013, according to prosecutors.
[April 5 2021 Appealing ]
Harvey Weinstein appealed on April 5 2021 the rape and felony sex crime conviction at his New York criminal trial, arguing that a specific juror who had written a novel about “predatory older men,” and the admission of prior bad acts witnesses, affected his ability to have a fair trial, in a 166-page appeal. Weinstein still faces a separate case in Los Angeles, where he is charged with 11 felony counts: four counts of forcible rape, four counts of forcible oral copulation, two counts of sexual battery by restraint and one count of sexual penetration by use of force
[December 3 2020 not Appealing? ]
Weinstein’s spokesman Juda Engelmayer states that he hasn’t been able to file his appeal because his ex-wives have frozen his accounts.
‘His appeal probably will get filed at some point but his lawyers are not doing the paperwork because he can’t pay for it.”
Harvey Weinstein’s first wife Eve Chilton and second wife, Georgina Chapman have liened £4.5 million of his remaining assets. Chilton is now married and lives quietly in the suburbs of New York.
She met Weinstein in 1987 when she was his assistant at The Weinstein Company.
They had three daughters and split in 2004. In the divorce, Eve got their apartment overlooking Central Park, which she has since sold for £17 million.
Weinstein’s legal team claim he has paid her £45 million over the years.
[January 5 2018 Barkin on Weinstein at Golden Globes ]
Harvey in AZ January 4 afternoon
[December 2 2010 Applehead Pictures Deal Affirmed]
A New York appeals court says Revlon cosmetics magnate Ronald Perelman owes more than $3 million to a movie production company he started with ex-wife Ellen Barkin. The ruling Thursday upholds a lower court decision.
The actress and Perelman divorced in 2006. During the marriage, the couple and Barkin’s brother George launched Applehead Pictures. A decision by the state Appellate Division says the billionaire Revlon head has to fork over the $4.3 million he agreed to pay the “Sea of Love” star’s production company, despite his contentions that he didn’t have to because she’d violated their divorce deal.
In a unanimous decision, the appeals court said the agreements Perelman signed with Barkin and her production company are completely separate – and there’s no evidence she violated the divorce agreement anyway.
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