Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said in court, a week after the state's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction. Weinstein appeared in court before Judge Curtis Farber, more than four years after his conviction was hailed as a milestone for the #MeToo movement, in which women accused hundreds of men in entertainment, media, politics and other fields of sexual misconduct.
The conviction included charges of first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape. Weinstein, who has denied having non-consensual sexual encounters with anyone, was acquitted on other charges. A lawyer for one of Weinstein's accusers, Gloria Allred, was present in the courtroom amid a gallery packed with reporters. She said she planned to address the media after the hearing.