Harvey Weinstein‘s lawyer faced a skeptical panel of appellate judges in Los Angeles on Thursday as she argued that his 2022 rape conviction should be overturned.
Weinstein, 74, was sentenced to 16 years for raping an Italian model at the Mr. C Hotel near Beverly Hills in February 2013.
In oral arguments on Thursday, his attorney Jennifer Bonjean argued that the trial court improperly withheld salacious Facebook messages between the victim and Pascal Vicedomini, the proprietor of an Italian film festival.
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“The lower court all but gutted Mr. Weinstein’s defense,” Bonjean argued, saying that jurors were unaware of key evidence
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