Weinstein loses bid to overturn California rape conviction

A California appeals court on Friday upheld ex-Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s 2022 rape and sexual assault conviction in the state but ordered that the trial judge who gave him 16 years in prison resentence him.

A unanimous three-judge panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeals rejected Weinstein’s efforts to overturn the guilty verdicts, finding that his Los Angeles trial judge did not violate his constitutional rights.

The court, however, found a resentencing appropriate, citing that the trial judge who sentenced Weinstein to 16 years in prison relied in part on his convictions in New York that were overturned due to “egregious” judicial errors.

The decision comes a day after prosecutors in the Empire State dropped another case against Weinstein.........

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