Disgraced Harvey Weinstein appeals California rape convictions – Crime Online

Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has appealed his 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles appeals court.

The lawyers filed the appeal on Friday after being granted several extensions to give them more time to file the paperwork, KCBS reported.

The disgraced movie mogul was found guilty in December 2022 of sexually assaulting an actress in a Los Angeles hotel room in February 2013 and sentenced to 16 years in prison.

The appeal filed Friday follows a similar one that ended in April with the overturning of his 2020 rape convictions in New York, CrimeOnline reported. Prosecutors there said last month they would review several new complaints against the 72-year-old as they bring the case back for a retrial.

Weinstein served a 23-year prison sentence for the New York convictions. Although those convictions were overturned, he is still in prison for the California conviction.

The jury in California could not agree on three other charges and acquitted Weinstein of the charge of sexual assault.

According to the Associated Press, the appeal argues that Weinstein did not receive a fair trial because the judge wrongly ignored evidence that the model he was accused of raping had a sexual relationship with the director of a Los Angeles film festival and that the judge should not have heard the New York conviction from the jury.

The judge “denied Weinstein his constitutional right to defense and caused a miscarriage of justice,” the appeal states.

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(Featured Image: FILE – Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool, File))