Superfungurl
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That's to be expected because, you know....Trump paid off a whore! What's a few...dozen...sheckshual assaults when you got a HUSH MONEY crime to criminalate!
Harvey Weinstein's 23 year rape sentence thrown out on appeal
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butters
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no, he's not but i don't know if that's where he'll go after court appearances and a retrial if his conviction remains overturned.
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you're good, your orange idol loves the uneducated
I believe he was at Bellevue while at trial, and then moved to the Rikers medical facility after the trial.
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so i went to explore a bit and found this:I believe he was at Bellevue while at trial, and then moved to the Rikers medical facility after the trial.
so i think that clears up my misunderstanding.
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Slogged through a lawyer's pedantic analysis yesterday explaining why Weinstein's conviction was overturned in NY, to make an hour-long presentation down to three paragraphs or so, it appears the trial judge exercised very poor judgment when he found out that Weinstein would NOT be testifying. The judge permitted random articles introduced into evidence that had NOTHING to do with the trial (Weinstein lied on his passport application, for instance).
The biggest fuckup was allowing testimony of three women who chose NOT to sue Weinstein for sexual assault about his sexual assault of them. This might appear to be corroboration of the three women who WERE suing Weinstein for sexual assault, but the legal premise for this testimony was created a few years back by the New York judiciary itself.
The NY Supreme Court ruled, probably correctly, that that was the job of the NY state legislature not the judiciary (many states have legislated the allowance of victim testimony to corroborate, NY did not see a need as they judiciary had ruled earlier it had already decided. Oops!)
The NY Supreme Court then had to rule if this was tainting the conviction enough to overturn, and they decided 4-3 to overturn. Three conservative justices voting yes, three liberal justices voting no. The tie breaker was center-liberal chief Justice, who had previously clerked for Sotomayor at the US Supreme Court.
Since all three of Weinstein's victims are willing to testify again, I believe we'll see a similar verdict of guilty on re-trial, which evidently has 90 days to begin again under the Constitution's "speedy trial" clause.
BTW, the decision was exceptionally harsh towards the trial judge, and he was not re-appointed as a judge earlier this year.
The biggest fuckup was allowing testimony of three women who chose NOT to sue Weinstein for sexual assault about his sexual assault of them. This might appear to be corroboration of the three women who WERE suing Weinstein for sexual assault, but the legal premise for this testimony was created a few years back by the New York judiciary itself.
The NY Supreme Court ruled, probably correctly, that that was the job of the NY state legislature not the judiciary (many states have legislated the allowance of victim testimony to corroborate, NY did not see a need as they judiciary had ruled earlier it had already decided. Oops!)
The NY Supreme Court then had to rule if this was tainting the conviction enough to overturn, and they decided 4-3 to overturn. Three conservative justices voting yes, three liberal justices voting no. The tie breaker was center-liberal chief Justice, who had previously clerked for Sotomayor at the US Supreme Court.
Since all three of Weinstein's victims are willing to testify again, I believe we'll see a similar verdict of guilty on re-trial, which evidently has 90 days to begin again under the Constitution's "speedy trial" clause.
BTW, the decision was exceptionally harsh towards the trial judge, and he was not re-appointed as a judge earlier this year.
