Charges Dropped Against Harvey Weinstein in UK Indecent Assault Case...

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a special thank you to each of our subscribers who make this channel possible here's today's story in June 2022 the CPS authorized two charges of indecent assault against Mr Weinstein these will now be dropped Frank Ferguson head of the CPS special crime and counterterrorism division said following a review of the evidence in this case the CPS has decided to discontinue criminal proceedings against Harvey Weinstein the CPS has British prosecutor said on Thursday they had discontinued indecent assault charges against former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein after concluding there was no realistic chance of securing a conviction when it authorized charges against Weinstein 2 years ago Britain's Crown prosecution service said the alleged assault had taken place in August 1996 in London with police adding the accusation had involved a woman now aged in her 50s following a review of the evidence in this case the CPS has decided to discontinue criminal proceed ings against Harvey Weinstein said Frank Ferguson head of the CPS special crime and counterterrorism division the CPS has a duty to keep all cases under continuous review and we have decided that there is no longer a realistic Prospect of conviction Ferguson said the CPS had explained the decision to all the parties involved Weinstein 72 was found guilty of rape allegations and jailed for 23 years in the United States in 2020 in a milestone for the hash me2 movement in which women accused hundreds of men in entertainment media politics and other fields of sexual misconduct however the New York Court of Appeals threw out the Manhattan conviction in April finding the Miramax Film Studio co-founder did not get a fair trial because a judge improperly allowed testimony by accusers he was not formally charged with assaulting he faces a possible retrial in November a court in Los Angeles in 2022 also convicted him of raping an actress in the city and he was sentenced to 16 years in prison that conviction was not affected by the New York Court's decision and he has not begun serving the California sentence Weinstein has denied wrongdoing and has denied having non-consensual sexual encounters with anyone prosecutors in the UK announced Wednesday that they have discontinued indecent assault charges against Harvey Weinstein citing in a statement there is no longer a realistic Prospect of conviction Britain's Crown prosecution service charged the disgraced producer in July 22 in the aftermath of Weinstein's conviction in sexual assault trials in both New York and Los Angeles trials the New York conviction has since been thrown out with a retrial pending in the UK Weinstein was facing two counts of indecent assault against one woman for an alleged incident that took place in August 1996 the alleged victim who is now in her 50s was not identified nor did the crown prosecution service CPS share any details about their investigation or the accusation when the charges were announced in July 2022 however following a review of the evidence in this case the CPS has decided to discontinue criminal proceedings against Harvey Weinstein Frank Ferguson head of the CPS special crime and counterterrorism division said in a statement via the BBC the CPS did not elaborate on why there was no longer a realistic Prospect of conviction but added that both parties Weinstein and the alleged victim were notified of their decision Weinstein has had a of legal victories in recent months starting with the overturned conviction in the New York trial he was initially found guilty of criminal sexual assault and the first degree in rape and the third degree at the original trial in February 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in prison the conviction was overturned in April 2024 by the New York state court of appeals in a 77-page decision the majority of Judges decided that the judge who oversaw Weinstein's trial Justice James M Burke should would not have allowed prosecutors to let accusers whose allegations were not part of the charges against him to testify in the trial a potential retrial is currently slated for November Weinstein who was recently hospitalized with covid and double pneumonia remains Behind Bars pinning the New York trial due to his 16-year sentence following the Los Angeles trial point2 charges of indecent assault against Harvey Weinstein have been dropped by the UK's Crown prosecution service CPS which said that a conviction is not realistic the CPS authorized the charges against the disgraced Hollywood Mogul in June of 2022 stemming from an event in August 1996 the alleged victim is a woman who is now in her 50s the Metropolitan Police said at the time however on Thursday the charges were dropped completely given that there is no longer a realistic Prospect of conviction following a review of the evidence in this case the CPS has decided to discontinue criminal proceedings against Harvey wein the head of CPS special crime and counterterrorism division Frank Ferguson said 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