(AP) — Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers argue in an appeal that he did not receive a fair trial in 2022 when he was convicted of rape and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The appeal argues that the trial judge improperly ignored evidence that the person Weinstein was convicted of raping had a sexual relationship with the director of a film festival that had brought both Weinstein and the woman to Los Angeles at the time of the alleged assault.

Weinstein’s lawyers argued that the judge “denied him his constitutional right to defense and caused a miscarriage of justice.”

The lawyers say the judge wrongly informed the jury about Weinstein’s previous, now overturned, conviction in New York and that women’s testimony about the alleged assaults was biased.

Weinstein’s lawyers first filed an appeal in April 2023, asking for several extensions before filing the lawsuit. Prosecutors have until August 6 to respond.

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