Harvey Weinstein set to be sentenced for sexual assault after 6-year legal odyssey
NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to prison, reporters, advocates and the curious public crammed the courtroom to witness the disgraced Hollywood honcho’s #MeToo reckoning.
Harvey Weinstein, the 74-year-old former film producer, is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a former TV production assistant, in 2006. Weinstein has already served more than six years in prison as his case has cycled through the criminal justice system following two overturned convictions and two retrials.
The alleged assault occurred at Weinstein's Manhattan apartment. Haley plans to speak at Weinstein's sentencing, her lawyer, Gloria Allred, said. Weinstein's lawyers have not disclosed what sentence they will seek, but Manhattan prosecutors are seeking 20 years in prison. Weinstein denies raping or sexually assaulting anyone, stating in a jailhouse interview that he will be proven innocent.
He is currently awaiting resentencing in a separate rape case in Los Angeles, where his original 16-year sentence was thrown out due to his earlier New York convictions being overturned. Weinstein is currently housed at a medical unit for jail inmates at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, where he is receiving treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia, diabetes, and walking difficulties.
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