检察官称,哈维-韦恩斯坦正因其他性侵犯行为接受调查 || Harvey Weinstein under investigation for additional sexual assaults, prosecutor says

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一位检察官周二表示,检察官正在调查他们所说的前好莱坞电影大亨哈维-温斯坦实施的 "其他暴力性攻击",并打算在他之前的定罪被推翻后寻求新的起诉。

检察官尼科尔-布伦贝格(Nicole Blumberg)在曼哈顿纽约州刑事法庭法官柯蒂斯-法伯(Curtis Farber)的听证会上表示,温斯坦涉嫌实施的其他攻击行为仍在作为犯罪指控的时效期限内。

2020 年,温斯坦因强奸指控被判有罪,这是 #MeToo 运动的一个里程碑,在这场运动中,数百名女性指控娱乐、媒体、政治和其他领域的数百名男性性行为不端。

陪审团认定,现年 72 岁的米拉麦克斯电影工作室联合创始人在 2006 年性侵了前制片助理米里亚姆-海利(Miriam Haley),并在 2013 年强奸了有抱负的女演员杰西卡-曼恩(Jessica Mann)。她们是 80 多名指控他性行为不端的女性之一。

他被判处 23 年监禁,但纽约上诉法院在 4 月份认定,主持审判的法官詹姆斯-伯克(James Burke)犯了一个重大错误,他允许三名妇女就温斯坦涉嫌性侵犯的指控作证,而这些指控并不是对温斯坦刑事指控的一部分。

法院称,有关 "先前不良行为 "的证词侵犯了他获得公平审判的权利。

温斯坦否认与任何人有过非自愿的接触。温斯坦的律师阿瑟-艾达拉(Arthur Aidala)周二表示,在定罪被推翻后,检察官寻求在案件中增加更多受害者是不公平的。

"艾达拉在法庭上说:"我们再次开通了一条热线:'1-800 Get Harvey'。

艾达拉说,温斯坦被单独关押在纽约市莱克斯岛监狱期间,出现了一系列医疗问题。他指责检察官使用拖延战术继续关押温斯坦,布伦贝格对此予以否认。

"正如我们在 2020 年所说的那样,有些妇女还没有准备好进入法律程序。其中一些妇女现在已经准备好了,"布伦贝格说。

布伦贝格说,检察官将准备在秋季审理此案,但审判日期未定。温斯坦预计将于 7 月 19 日再次出庭。

温斯坦还在加州的另一起强奸案中被判处 16 年监禁。纽约法院的判决并未影响该定罪,他尚未开始服加州的刑期。

米拉麦克斯的热门影片包括《莎翁情史》和《纸醉金迷》。温斯坦自己的同名电影工作室于 2018 年 3 月申请破产。
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Prosecutors are investigating “additional violent sexual assaults” they say former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein committed and intend to seek a new indictment after his previous conviction was overturned, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Prosecutor Nicole Blumberg said in a hearing before Justice Curtis Farber in New York state criminal court in Manhattan that the additional assaults Weinstein allegedly committed were still within the statute of limitations to be charged as crimes.

Weinstein was found guilty on rape allegations in 2020 in a milestone for the #MeToo movement, in which women accused hundreds of men in entertainment, media, politics and other fields of sexual misconduct.

A jury found the 72-year-old Miramax film studio co-founder sexually assaulted former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and raped aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013. They are among more than 80 women who have accused him of sexual misconduct.

He was sentenced to 23 years in prison, but the New York Court of Appeals in April found that Judge James Burke, who presided over the trial, made a critical mistake by allowing three women to testify about alleged sexual assaults by Weinstein that were not part of the criminal charges against him.

The court said that testimony about “prior bad acts” violated his right to a fair trial.

Weinstein has denied having non-consensual encounters with anyone. Arthur Aidala, Weinstein’s lawyer, said on Tuesday it was unfair for prosecutors to seek to add additional victims to the case after the conviction was overturned.

“Once again we have a hotline: ‘1-800 Get Harvey’,” Aidala said in court.

Weinstein is suffering from a host of medical problems while being held in solitary confinement at New York City’s Rikers Island prison, Aidala said. He accused prosecutors of using delay tactics to keep Weinstein incarcerated, which Blumberg denied.

“As we said in 2020, there were women who were not ready to proceed with the legal process. Some of those women are now ready to proceed,” Blumberg said.

Prosecutors would be ready to try the case in the autumn, Blumberg said, but no trial date was set. Weinstein is expected back in court on July 19.

Weinstein was also sentenced to 16 years in prison following a separate rape trial in California. That conviction was not affected by the New York court’s decision, and he has not begun serving the California sentence.

Miramax’s hit films included Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction. Weinstein’s own eponymous film studio filed for bankruptcy in March 2018.

via News - South China Morning Post (author: Reuters)
 
 
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