Los Angeles County prosecutors have obtained a new indictment against Harvey Weinstein in the hopes of reviving a charge that a judge threw out earlier this month, attorneys said. Weinstein appeared in a downtown courtroom Monday to answer the indictment, which was handed down last week, according to his attorney, Mark Werksman. But Lench granted the defense motion that the indictment created a new criminal proceeding and broke the statute. AdvertisementThe indictment handed down last week marked the third amended indictment against Weinstein this year, as prosecutors have had to grapple with repeated defense attempts to get charges dismissed on statutory grounds. California Harvey Weinstein gets 23-year prison sentence in his New York trial Fallen Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for committing a criminal sex act against a production assistant and for raping an aspiring actress.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 23, 2021 15:33 UTC