The former film producer Harvey Weinsteinwhose 2020 rape conviction was overturned last Thursday by a New York appeals court hospitalized after returning to a prison in that city and is currently undergoing a series of medical tests.
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‘It looks like he needs a lot of help. has many problems. They do all kinds of tests on him. “His health is a disaster,” the former audiovisual magnate’s lawyer said on Saturday. Arthur Aidalato the American press.
Weinstein, whose fall was quite a blow symbol of the #MeToo movementhad been sent in recent hours from the Mohawk Correctional Center in the city of Rome – in northern New York state – to the penitentiary pavilion of the prison. Bellevue Hospitallocated in Manhattan.
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Aidala specified that his client’s ailments are physical, because he remains mental “firm‘ and with ‘the feet firmly on the ground.
He also criticized the treatment he received, claiming that normally the transfer of prisoners It takes one or two weeks, but in his case it only lasted 24 hours and so on They didn’t even let him go to the toilet.
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“He is a sick man of 72 years old. (…) They refused to give him even a sip of water, neither meal“Not even a break to go to the toilet,” he emphasized.
However, Aidala said he still hopes the former film producer appear next Wednesday before the Manhattan Supreme Court as a preparatory step towards a possible new process.
Thursday’s court ruling was approved by a small majority majority of 4-3 judges and was based on the fact that several women had been wrongly called to testify as witnesses They claimed to be victims of Weinsteinwhile the accusations they made were not part of the facts tried.
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Weinstein served a prison sentence of 23 years in a New York state prison after being convicted of practicing forcing oral sex to a production assistant in 2006 and for third-degree rape in an attack on a young actress in 2013.
After being found guilty in March 2020, he was sent to prison The Angels to be tried there again and again for other sexual crimes He was convicted. This last time to 16 years in prison, so last Thursday’s annulment would not mean his Editionbut the possible transfer to California to fulfill the second sentence.
Source: El heraldo
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