Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for sex crimes overturned
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
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Summary
Yesterday morning, New York’s highest court of appeals decided to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s 2017 convictions of multiple sex crimes. The conviction had started the #metoo movement and changed the conversation around how we handle such allegations. When sin turns our stomachs and makes us long for justice, we have a choice on how we process this with others, either in confrontation or conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 26th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison |
| 0:08.6 | Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Dennison. When news first broke back in 2017, |
| 0:17.6 | that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein had been accused of repeatedly harassing and sexually abusing women across three decades, |
| 0:25.6 | it shocked many of those outside the industry and sparked the Me Too movement. |
| 0:30.6 | By the time he was convicted three years later, a great deal had changed within both Hollywood and the general public |
| 0:38.6 | regarding how such allegations were handled. The impact of Weinstein's indictment and eventual |
| 0:44.2 | conviction is part of why many found it so troubling when, yesterday morning, New York's |
| 0:50.1 | highest court of appeals decided to overturn that conviction. The four to three verdict was hotly |
| 0:56.4 | contested and the majority eventually concluded that the judge in the original trial erred by allowing |
| 1:02.6 | witness testimony from women whom Weinstein had previously assaulted but whose accusations were not |
| 1:09.1 | part of the charges he faced. In so doing, they argued that he |
| 1:13.1 | prejudiced the jury against Weinstein in a way that was beyond the bounds of the law. However, |
| 1:19.2 | before we rush to judgment, a few key details are worth noting. The verdict does not exonerate |
| 1:25.1 | Weinstein, and Manhattan's district attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. |
| 1:28.6 | has promised to launch a new trial in the near future. That said, it is unclear when that trial |
| 1:34.8 | could commence since he's currently occupied with the 34 felony counts his office has brought |
| 1:40.4 | against former president Donald Trump. Despite the ruling, Weinstein will remain in prison |
| 1:45.8 | for now. In addition to the original conviction in New York, a court in California also found him |
| 1:51.5 | guilty of rape. He was set to serve that 16-year sentence after his 23-year sentence in New York |
| 1:57.8 | was complete, though few expect him to survive long enough to ever see a |
| 2:01.9 | jail on the West Coast. Still, Weinstein's lawyers hope that Thursday's verdict will help them overturn |
| 2:07.8 | that conviction as well, with hearings in California set to begin on May the 20th. Ultimately, it's |
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