Harvey Weinstein will face an April 14 retrial on a rape charge that ended in a hung jury last year, a New York judge said on Wednesday, giving him another shot to fight an allegation that kickstarted the #MeToo movement.
The ex-movie mogul will go to trial with a new defense team after hiring the attorneys that helped Sean “Diddy” Combs largely prevail at a sex trafficking trial last year. Weinstein’s new legal team, Agnifilo Intrater, is also representing Luigi Mangione on murder charges and Oren Alexander on sex trafficking charges.
The April criminal trial will be Weinstein’s third in ...
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