Harvey Weinstein's retrial on rape charges in New York is set for April 15

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose sexual misconduct helped fuel the #MeToo movement, will face retrial in New York on rape charges in April.

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose sexual misconduct helped fuel the #MeToo movement, will face retrial in New York on rape charges on April 15, a judge announced Wednesday.

Weinstein, 72, was convicted in 2020 in New York of the third-degree rape of one woman and a first-degree criminal sex act against another woman; he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. That conviction was overturned in April after a state appeals court, in a 4-3 decision, determined that the trial judge had erred by allowing women to testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case.

In September, a New York City grand jury indicted Weinstein on new charges.

State Judge Curtis Farber said Wednesday in court in Manhattan that Weinstein’s retrial will include a new allegation involving a woman who wasn’t in the original case. The woman alleges he forced oral sex on her at a Manhattan hotel in 2006.

Weinstein is being held at the Rikers Island jail complex. He arrived in court Wednesday in a wheelchair amid a litany of health issues. NBC News was first to report last year that he has chronic myeloid leukemia.

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