The recent ruling by New York's highest court to overturn Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape

conviction has sent a wave of shock and disappointment through advocates of the Me Too Movement.

The 72-year-old former movie mogul remains in prison on a

16 year sentence for another rape conviction in Los Angeles, but the New York

ruling still raises questions about justice for sexual assault survivors.

For some perspective on all of this, I'm joined now by Anita Hill, chair and president of the

Hollywood Commission founded in 2017 to handle abuse in the entertainment industry.

She's a professor of law and social policy at Brandeis University.

Professor Hill, welcome and thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

So as you know, that New York court ruling cited errors in allowing testimony about sexual

assault allegations that weren't actually part of the criminal case, but what was your

reaction when you heard that initial ruling?

Well, the initial ruling for me was shocking and of course disappointing.

I think the prosecutors have done a great job of trying to bring context into the conversation and to the processes and the understanding of criminal terms like intent and reasonable doubt.

And I'm disappointed, but I also know that this is not the last case that we will be hearing.

And I'm really excited that the prosecutors are saying that, telling the public that they will retry this case.

Just how they do that, I don't know what the strategy is going to be.

I don't know, I'm not a prosecutor.

But since there was evidence that was excluded, I think that there must

have a strategy about additional evidence that will give context to jurors and inform jurors about how to interpret the law on sexual

assault, whether that evidence is coming from other victims who are not complainants, or whether that's coming from experts. We do need

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