Prosecutors in Los Angeles have said that they won’t retry Harvey Weinstein on the sexual assault charges that ended in a hung jury in December.
on charges of rape and sexual assault for his February 2013 encounter with an Italian model at the Mr. C. Hotel in LA – who was referred to at trial as Jane Doe 1.
LA prosecutors have said they won’t retry Harvey Weinstein on the remaining charges that resulted in a hung jury.But if convicted on the sexual battery charge relating to Jane Doe 2, Weinstein only faced another year in prison and it would have forced many of the same witnesses to testify again, Thompson said. One witness would have had to testify for the fourth time, the prosecutor explained.Judge Lisa Lench tossed out the remaining charges Tuesday, Thompson confirmed.
“Had the court not handed down a fitting sentence, my client would have been ready to support the prosecutors if they opted to retry Weinstein, even considering the enormous emotional toll it would inflict on her,” Fegan said.
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