Prosecutors said they hope to retry the disgraced movie mogul by September.
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Many other states have severe restrictions, but this one hits different.
The new charges against French film star Gérard Depardieu has evoked parallels to the Hollywood reckoning of Harvey Weinstein.
Prosecutors allege Karen Read fatally hit her cop boyfriend and left him to die in the snow. Her team says she’s being railroaded.
The claims relate to his alleged actions during two film shoots.
“This decision is so unfair to the women that were hurt,” Bernard Cody told The Daily Beast on Friday.
Weinstein will be in Manhattan Supreme Court next Wednesday, less than a week after the state’s highest court overturned his 2020 rape conviction.
A surprising number are mounting comebacks.
Even if he’s still locked up.
“He’s been dying to tell his story from Day 1,” his lawyer said Thursday, hours after Weinstein's 2020 New York conviction was overturned.