Harvey Weinstein is due to the Court when the judge weighs the scope of his #MeToo Prochial and when he will begin

New York – Harvey Weinstein returns to Court on Wednesday, since a judge will decide when the new film trial will begin, the new trial will begin and if it will include an accusation that involves a woman who was not in the original case.

Weinstein, 72, wants the additional position to be presented, arguing through the lawyers that Manhattan’s prosecutors only brought him to reinforce his case with a third accuser after the highest court in New York revoked his conviction for 2020 for positions of rape and sexual aggression that involved two women.

Judge Curtis Farber is expected to rule on that and other matters, including the date of the trial, a task that has been complicated by a judicial calendar increasingly full of people.

Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, represents the conservative strategist Steve Bannon in a border wall fraud that will begin on March 4 before a different judge of Manhattan. Meanwhile, Farber has a murder trial in March.

Before the date of the Bannon trial was established last week, Aidala had suggested that Weinstein’s trial was first in “the interest of humanity”, citing health in decline of the former head of study.

Weinstein is being treated by numerous medical conditions, including chronic myeloid leukemia and diabetes.

“They know that Mr. Weinstein is dying of cancer and is an innocent man at this time in the state of New York,” Aidala argued in court last week. He begged prosecutors: “Can I prove the case of this dying man first?”

Weinstein is being withdrawn by charges that he made oral sex by force in a film and television production assistant in 2006 and violated an actor aspiring in 2013. The additional position, presented last September, alleges that he forced sex Oral in a different woman in a Manhattan hotel. in 2006.

The Manhattan district prosecutor said in the judicial documents that the woman, that she has not been publicly identified, was presented to prosecutors a few days before the beginning of Weinstein’s first trial, but was not part of that case.

The prosecutors said they did not pursue the accusations of the women after Weinstein was sentenced and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but they reviewed and obtained a new accusation after the State Appeals Court threw his sentence last April.

Farber ruled in October to combine the new accusation and the charges existing in a single trial.

Weinstein’s lawyers argue that prosecutors harmed him when waiting for almost five years to present the additional position, suggesting that they had chosen not to include the accusation in their first judgment to be able to use it later if their conviction was reversed.

Prosecutors described that “absurd” thought, counteracting that Weinstein’s lawyers would also have been outraged if they had been accused based on the accusation of the third woman, either during her first judgment or immediately after her conviction.

Weinstein “would probably have characterized that time as a vindictive and free pile,” prosecutors wrote in a judicial presentation last month.

The Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office, Alvin Bragg, said that the accusation previously not loaded “required a delicate investigation” and a serious contemplation before looking for an accusation, partly because there are no eyewitnesses for the alleged assault and no scientific evidence or other physical evidence.

Weinstein co -founded the film and television production companies Miramax and The Weinstein Company and was once one of Hollywood’s most powerful people, since he produced films such as “Pulp Fiction” and “The Crying Game”.

In 2017, it became the most prominent villain of the #MeToo movement, which exploded when women began to make public with stories of their behavior.

For a long time it has maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.

When cond by Weinstein’s conviction, the Court of Appeals ruled that the judge of first instance, James M. Burke, unfairly allowed the testimony against him based on the accusations of other women who were not part of the case. Burke is no longer in the bank.

Weinstein was sentenced in Los Angeles in 2022 for another rape. His 16 -year prison sentence in that case is still standing, but his lawyers appealed in June, arguing that he did not receive a fair trial.

Weinstein has remained in custody at the Rikers Island prison complex in New York, with occasional trips to a hospital for medical treatment, while waiting for the new trial.

Associated Press generally does not identify people who allege sexual assault unless they consent to be appointed.