Harvey Weinstein rape conviction overturned by NY appeals court
Harvey Weinstein rape conviction overturned by NY appeals court
A New York appeals court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial in stunning landmark #MeToo case. The entertainment mogul was convicted on two charges.
We can at least take solace in the fact that he isn't being released:
Even though the New York appeals court overturned Weinstein’s conviction, that does not mean he is getting out of prison.
After Weinstein's sentencing in New York in 2020, he was extradited to California in July 2021 to face sexual assault allegations made by four women in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills between 2004 and 2013.
In December 2022, he was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count involving a woman known as Jane Doe 1. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in February 2023. Weinstein's legal team has vowed to appeal that conviction as well.
Guy is literally an international sex pest:
Weinstein also faces charges in London for two alleged offenses in 1996.
So the lesson here is be such a piece of shit that you single-phallically spawn a movement, then use a “target of a movement” defense to claim emotional bias. Our courts are completely devoid of justice.
To play devil's advocate here, Lynch mobs arent justice.
The satanic panic in the 1980s and early 1990s was a movement where kids claimed daycare workers were committing atrocities. It led to something like 170 people getting charged with crimes and some of the accused committed suicide. Once the stories hit scrutiny the problems became clear -- the kids said people were killed and eaten who were still alive. They talked about secret tunnels that didn't exist. They talked about secret ultrasonic stealth planes that could land in a neighborhood could land secretly in a neighborhood in the northwest so kids could be kidnapped and sent to Mexico, then be flown back before their parents returned. It was a movement, but it was a false movement.
Historical Lynch mobs are a other example. Black men would be targeted by a mob for having the audacity of touching a pristine white girl (who nonetheless often fully consented and there was nothing illegal going on), and the mob would go string the guy up by the neck. It was a movement too, happened a lot, but it was just the personification of racism, and not justified by principles of justice.
A lot of people mistake moral indignation for righteousness and as a result seem to think that if a lynch mob shows up at your door you automatically deserve its full wrath. Really goes to show humans never change, even if we think we do.
Calling what happened to weinstein a lynch mob is disingenuous as fuck. It was an open secret he was a sex pest. Courtney love, when asked for advice for aspiring actresses, said "if Harvey weinstein invites you to a private party in the four seasons don't go" in fucking 2005.
If you're saying we should examine the credibility of the accusations, we already did that in court. This wasn't some random arrest due to accusations, the motherfucker stood trial and, spoiler alert, went to jail.
Hasn’t he died in jail yet? Shame, thought that happened already.
are judges liable in any way for making bad calls in cases like these? like, can they lose ability to judge or something if they fail to uphold the law?