LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles prosecutors told a judge Tuesday they would not retry Harvey Weinstein On allegations of rape and sexual assault involving two women.
At a hearing in the city of Los Angeles, Deputy District Attorney Paul Thompson told Superior Court Judge Lisa B. announced the decision to Lench. The judge dismissed allegations that a jury failed to reach a settlement in December and said Weinstein would return to New York, where he was convicted in a similar case,
los angeles Jury convicts Weinstein70, of rape and sexual assault of a Italian model and actor,
it was sentenced to 16 years In jail. This is in addition to the 23 years he is already serving for a similar sentence in New York.
Jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict on charges involving two counts of rape, one rape count and one sexual battery count against Jennifer Seibel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and model Lauren Young.
Young said during Tuesday’s hearing that he was disappointed that prosecutors would not pursue a retrial. Thompson said that Weinstein would only face an additional year in prison if overturned on his count, and that while he wanted justice for all victims, the extra stretch of another trial was not worth it.
Weinstein was acquitted of a count of sexual battery against a massage therapist.
The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they publicly identify themselves, as the women named here have done.
Weinstein’s New York conviction is being appealed and his lawyers plan to appeal his conviction here.
Lench declined an offer of a defense motion for a new trial before Weinstein’s sentencing. His attorneys argued that important evidence was withheld from the jury.
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