Mira Sorvino is ‘horrified’ and ‘outraged’ that Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction was overturned in New York

“I am disgusted by the justice system that disadvantages the perpetrators and not the victims,” she wrote.

Actress Mira Sorvino, one of several women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, says she is “disgusted” and “sickened by the justice system” after a New York appeals court overturned the disgraced producer’s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a retrial on Thursday.

“Horrified! Day after #DenimDay “In honor of victims of sexual violence, Harvey Weinstein’s conviction was overturned, in part because witnesses like actress Annabella Sciorra testified to previous misdeeds,” Sorvino wrote. “Since when do courts not allow evidence of a pattern of previous misdeeds? He is a serial offender who has raped/harmed over 200 women! I am disgusted that the justice system skews towards the perpetrators rather than the victims.”

In a 4-3 decision, the court found that trial judge James M. Burke erred by allowing the 2020 jury to hear witnesses from the Molineux panel—a group of women who made allegations of sexual assault against Weinstein that he was not charged with—to highlight a history of bad deeds. Weinstein was later found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree and third-degree rape and sentenced to 23 years in prison. (Sorvino was not part of the trial.)

Sorvino reposted her statement on her Instagram account, adding, “I’m really upset. To all my sisters/brothers/fellow survivors out there, it just means we have to love even harder and fight even harder. Evil is raising its ugly head, but we are the army of light and we will prevail.”

Although Weinstein’s conviction was overturned in New York, the media mogul will remain in prison as he was sentenced to 16 years in California last year after being found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a woman in 2013.

Sorvino recalled several instances in which Weinstein behaved inappropriately toward her, including an incident in a Toronto hotel room in 1995. “He started massaging my shoulders, which made me very uncomfortable, and then tried to get more physical, sort of chasing me around,” she said in a 2017 interview with The New Yorker.

Last month, Sorvino admitted at 90s Con that she felt her “career had been hampered by Weinstein,” PEOPLE reported.

“I was no longer a successful film actress,” she said. “I was still doing independent films and TV movies, but it was very hard.”

Sorvino is not the only actress to speak out following the overturning of Weinstein’s New York conviction. Ashley Judd, who also publicly accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct, called the decision “an act of institutional betrayal” during a press conference Thursday afternoon.

“When survivors tell their stories, they exercise a powerful form of leadership that inspires others to engage in collective action that creates change,” Judd said. “We understand that leadership means exercising principles and values ​​in the face of uncertainty, and that is exactly what we as leaders and survivors are doing. This is an act of institutional betrayal today, and our institutions are betraying survivors of male sexual violence.”

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