Prosecutors have reiterated their intent to retry Harvey Weinstein on recently overturned rape charges, as Judge Curtis Farber has scheduled a tentative date for Weinstein's retrial after Labor Day.
Prosecutors revealed that they are aiming for the trial to take place in the fall, possibly in September, according to The Daily Mail.
Farber remanded Weinstein in custody, as the disgraced film producer, 72, will face previous charges that he forcibly performed oral sex on a TV and film production assistant in 2006 and raped an aspiring actor in 2013.
In a move last week that has shocked the public, specifically survivors of sexual assault, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that the Oscar-winning producer did not receive a fair trial in 2020, ultimately voiding his 23-year prison sentence.
Weinstein had been serving his sentence in a New York jail for the two sex attacks against aspiring actress Jessica Mann and product assistant Mimi Haleyi.
He was also sentenced to 16 years in 2022, following a guilty verdict in a Los Angeles court on three rape and sexual assault charges.
The conviction still stands.
Last week's ruling found that a trial judge had allowed jurors to see and hear too much evidence that was not directly related to his charges.
"We believe in this case and will be trying this case", Prosecutors told the court.
Haleyi, one of Weinstein's main accusers in the case against him, disclosed that she is unsure if she is ready to testify again in a retrial.
The reversal of his conviction is the second major #MeToo setback in the last two years.
A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein says the former movie mogul's California sex crime convictions should also be tossed after his rape conviction in New York was overturned.
Weinstein continues to deny the allegations, insisting that his relations with the victims were consensual.
