Disgraced Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein will appear in a New York City courtroom Wednesday afternoon for issues related to his rape retrial.
Last month, the Court of Appeals threw out his 2020 rape and sexual assault convictions brought against him by aspiring actress Jessica Mann and production assistant Miriam Hayley after the panel of judges ruled unfair testimony from other women who weren't part of the case was permitted, the Associated Press reported.
As a result, his 23-year prison sentence in New York was overturned.
The hearing is expected to take place in the same New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial.
Weinstein, 72, remains imprisoned after he was sentenced to 16 years for rape and sex assault in separate cases in California, but a lawyer for the convicted sex offender previously argued those 2022 convictions should also be tossed.
"You have to understand that when that Los Angeles jury walked into that courtroom, not only did every potential juror understand that there were allegations generally in the media that he was alleged to have committed these heinous sex crimes," Jennifer Bonjean said, according to NewsNation. "But what they also understood and knew was that he was a convicted felon, he came into that courtroom with the stamp of convicted felon on his back."
Weinstein has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and alleged any sex was consensual.
His retrial is tentatively scheduled for after Labor Day.
