Harvey Weinstein is acquitted of three charges of sexual harassment and abuse: Why?

The Los Angeles Justice decided

Harvey Weinstein of three of the seven charges of sexual harassment and abuse he was facing in the trial taking place in that Californian city, where last month he was sentenced

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As reported by the specialized site

, the cases that both the judges and the prosecution dismissed involve two women and had been the subject of disagreement among the members of the jury who participated in the process, who, although they did not reach a unanimous agreement, issued votes indicating her inclination to convict him.

At the hearing held on Tuesday, March 14, one of the alleged victims appeared with his lawyer to ask Judge Lisa B. Lench to review the decision: "I think Weinstein should be punished

, even if he has been convicted. in New York and Los Angeles for his crimes against women. I wanted him to take responsibility for what he did to me," he launched.

Harvey Weinstein, a former Hollywood powerhouse, faces 23 years in prison.

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how will they remember

"He will always be remembered not as a great producer, but as

," added the young woman, who told the magistrate that she believed that trying him again on those charges would set a precedent for these cases of violence. and that it would allow more victims to believe in the justice system.

Something that in trials of powerful people makes the victims distrust justice.

For her part, the second woman whose case was dismissed sent a letter that was read by prosecutor Marlene Martinez, in which she explained how her life had been profoundly impacted after being abused by Harvey Weinstein, and that since then she

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painful testimony

"He tried to ruin my life and the lives of many other women. He deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail," added the complainant before the judges.

In any case, the main prosecutor in the case, Paul Thompson, pointed out that

- when adding the sentences he received in New York - and that he had made the "difficult decision" not to go ahead with the request to carry out a new trial on those charges, although not because they do not consider that each victim deserves to seek justice.

Harvey Weinstein appeared in the New York Court with a walker.

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In this sense, he considered that after a new process, if there was a sentence linked to those complaints, at most the defendant would add an additional year to the total time he will spend in prison.

On the eve of the trial in Los Angeles, Weinstein was extradited to the west coast and was housed in the county jail, but once the hearings were over, he will return to New York in the next few days to complete the 23-year sentence that remains from who was found guilty in 2020.

Harvey Weinstein has signed that sentence to 23 years in prison.

The court rejected the Oscar-winning producer's claims that the judge in his landmark #MeToo trial wronged him by allowing women to testify about allegations that were not part of the criminal case.

The ruling by a five-judge panel in the state's intermediate appeals court

to date in the reckoning of sexual misconduct by powerful figures, an era that began with a spate of accusations against Weinstein.

Source: Telam

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