Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned by a New York appeals court Thursday, granting his legal team's request for a new trial.
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Pennsylvania's highest court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby's alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or alcohol.
Richard Kaplan is quoted in ScreenDaily regarding the Harvey Weinstein guilty verdict.
Weinstein faces life imprisonment should he be convicted in the current trial where he is charged with five counts of rape and predatory sexual assault against two women.
More than two years after a wave of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein ushered in the #MeToo movement, the disgraced movie mogul faces another reckoning: a criminal trial that could him put him behind bars for the rest of his life.