Bounding Into Comics Reports: Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year rape conviction has been overturned by a New York appeals court and ordered a new trial, as they find the former Hollywood producer’s trial judge allowed prosecutors to call additional accusers unrelated to the trial to testify against him.

Per Fox News, originally sentenced to 23 years in prison — following his February 2020 conviction of forcing oral sex on Mimi Haley in 2006 and third-degree rape of Jessica Man in 2013 — the state Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein’s sentence in a 4-3 decision.

According to the outlet, the appeals court came to this decision after they found the judge presiding Weinstein’s trial had allowed prosecutors to call four additional women, who were in no way involved in the Hollywood producer’s trial at the time, to testify.

In an statement issued to Fox News, Weinstein’s lawyer Donna Rotunno declared, “Justice was served. I believe this decision is larger than Harvey Weinstein. Courts cannot operate on emotion and lack of due process.”



“The world is off-balance, and when the justice system does not work, nothing does. This decision restores faith in the foundation of our system,” she concluded.