No Harvey Weinstein retrial on rape, sex assault charges

Los Angeles prosecutors advised a choose Tuesday that they won’t retry Harvey Weinstein on rape and sexual assault expenses involving two ladies. Deputy District Lawyer Paul Thompson introduced the choice to Superior Court docket Choose Lisa B. Lench at a listening to in downtown Los Angeles. The choose dismissed the fees {that a} jury failed to achieve an settlement on in December and mentioned Weinstein can be returned to New York, the place he was convicted in an analogous case.

The Los Angeles jury convicted Weinstein, 70, of the rape and sexual assault of an Italian mannequin and actor.

He was sentenced to 16 years in jail. That is along with the 23-year sentence he’s already serving for the same conviction in New York.

Jurors couldn’t attain unanimous verdicts on expenses involving two accusers, a rape rely and a sexual assault rely involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the spouse of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and a sexual battery rely in opposition to mannequin Lauren Younger.

Younger mentioned on the listening to Tuesday that she was dissatisfied prosecutors wouldn’t be shifting ahead with a retrial. Thompson mentioned that Weinstein would probably solely face an extra 12 months in jail if retried on her rely, and whereas he needed all of the victims to obtain justice, that further stretch was not value one other trial.

Weinstein was acquitted of a rely of sexual battery in opposition to a therapeutic massage therapist.

The Related Press doesn’t usually identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they determine themselves publicly, as the ladies named right here have. Weinstein’s New York conviction is below enchantment and his attorneys plan to enchantment his conviction right here.

Lench denied a movement for a protection movement for a brand new trial earlier than Weinstein’s sentencing. His legal professionals argued that important proof was withheld from the jury.