{"id":376894,"date":"2026-06-27T05:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376894\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T05:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T05:20:11","slug":"harvey-weinsteins-california-rape-conviction-upheld-resentencing-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376894\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein\u2019s California rape conviction upheld, resentencing ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"

An appeals court on Friday upheld\u00a0Harvey Weinstein\u2019s<\/a>\u00a02022\u00a0rape and sexual assault conviction\u00a0in California, but ordered the trial judge who gave him\u00a016 years in prison\u00a0to resentence him.<\/p>\n

A three-judge panel from California\u2019s 2nd District Court of Appeal unanimously issued the decision, saying his trial judge did not violate the former movie magnate\u2019s constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reject his attempts to disturb the jury\u2019s guilty verdicts,\u201d the judges wrote in their opinion.<\/p>\n

Weinstein spokesperson Juda Engelmayer said in an email that \u201cWe are disappointed by today\u2019s decision and respectfully disagree with the Court of Appeal\u2019s conclusions regarding the fairness of Mr. Weinstein\u2019s trial. At the same time, the court correctly recognized that his sentence cannot stand.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision came a day after prosecutors in New York decided Weinstein would\u00a0not face a fourth trial there, dropping the #MeToo-era case after the accuser said she could not bear to testify again.<\/p>\n

The California panel said that resentencing was necessary because the judge that sentenced him considered New York convictions that were later thrown out as an aggravating factor. California\u2019s attorney general agreed.<\/p>\n

Weinstein, 74, still stands\u00a0convicted of another sexual felony\u00a0in New York, and he remains behind bars awaiting a September sentencing there. Prosecutors there are seeking a 20-year prison term.<\/p>\n

In California, Weinstein was convicted in December 2022 of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault against an Italian model and actor known during the trial as\u00a0Jane Doe 1.\u00a0He would serve his new sentence there only after his New York term is complete.<\/p>\n

After the trial, Jane Doe 1 came forward under her name, Evgeniya Chernyshova, when she sued Weinstein in civil court.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly as Chernyshova did. Her attorney also said she consented to being named.<\/p>\n

Chernyshova testified\u00a0that Weinstein arrived uninvited to her hotel room during the 2013 LA Italia Film Festival and assaulted her.<\/p>\n

Weinstein\u2019s defense argued that Weinstein deserved a new trial because Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench wrongly prevented his trial lawyers from asking about Facebook messages between Chernyshova and festival head Pascal Vicedomini that would have shown they had a sexual relationship.<\/p>\n

The questioning would have demonstrated that she perjured herself when she said she and Vicedomini were just friends and colleagues, the defense said. And the lawyers argued it would have bolstered their assertion that she was not even in her room on the night of the alleged assault.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lower court all but gutted Mr. Weinstein\u2019s defense,\u201d attorney Jennifer Bonjean told the appeals judges at April 23 oral arguments.<\/p>\n

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