Harvey Weinstein was hospitalized Saturday for a battery of checks immediately after returning to Rikers Island jail in advance of a court visual appearance future week.
The 72-12 months-aged previous Hollywood powerhouse was taken to Bellevue Clinic in Manhattan for a much more extensive test soon after he was checked out by health professionals at Rikers, his legal professional, Arthur Aidala, explained.
Aidala claimed it looks Weinstein “desires a lot of help, bodily.”
“He’s got a lot of issues,” Aidala said. “He’s having all varieties of exams. He’s rather of a train wreck wellness smart.”
On Friday, he was transferred from Mohawk Correctional Facility, about 42 miles from Syracuse, New York, to a clinical ward at Rikers in New York Town and is scheduled to seem prior to a judge right after New York’s greatest court docket overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
Weinstein was serving a 23-12 months sentence at Mohawk soon after he was found responsible of forcibly accomplishing oral intercourse on a tv and movie production assistant in 2006 and rape in the 3rd degree for an assault on an aspiring actress in 2013.
He will appear in Manhattan Legal Courtroom on Wednesday at 2:15 p.m. before Decide Curtis Farber.
In a surprising 4-3 choice Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s conviction just after it located that the judge in the landmark #MeToo demo prejudiced the former film mogul with incorrect rulings, which includes a choice to let women of all ages testify about allegations that weren’t portion of the circumstance.
The court mentioned it “erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual functions” and the “testimony served no content non-propensity function.”
Even though the conviction was overturned, Weinstein remained in jail right after he was convicted in 2022 in Los Angeles of rape. He was acquitted of a rely of sexual battery in that scenario. Weinstein has submitted a recognize to charm that verdict as nicely.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Workplace said Thursday that it would do “all the things in our power to retry this scenario, and continue to be steadfast in our commitment to survivors of sexual assault.”
In an updated assertion Friday, the district attorney’s place of work reported its mission was to “middle survivors’ encounters and wellbeing in each individual selection we make, which we will do as we solution the subsequent ways in this scenario.”
