Weinstein was tried and convicted in 2022 of rape and sexual assault, for which he was sentenced to 16 years in prison. That came after a 23-year sentence for similar charges in New York in 2020, a conviction that the state’s highest court
“The introduction of this excessive, cumulative, and remote evidence of prior ‘sexual assaults’ simply signaled to the jury that the Defendant was a bad man who should be convicted of something irrespective of whether the prosecution proved its case,” the filing reads. Dave Ring, an attorney representing Jane Doe 1, said in a statement that the California appeal “makes the same tired arguments that he previously made multiple times, without success, to the trial court.”
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