Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by NY appeals court

[queenursula]

BREAKING: New York's highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial in the landmark #MeToo case. https://t.co/IE03JvTh7c
- The Associated Press (@AP) April 25, 2024
New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, reversing a landmark ruling of the #MeToo era. The

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[asnindie]

Some of these corrupt judges need to die. I bet it's an old white judge.

[tetrazzinichikn]

It’s a panel of judges and one of the dissents came from a woman who absolutely excoriated the fuck out of the majority.

[backtoblack]

People assume that when a rapist's conviction is overturned, it's proof that the victims lied.

It isn't. It's almost always a procedural loophole that an expensive, powerful attorney exploited to let a guilty man get away with injustice.

Weinstein and Cosby weren't exonerated. https://t.co/5eehkk9oLA
- Dr. Nicole Bedera (@NBedera) April 25, 2024

[swissbeauty23]

this happens all the time in "smaller" courts too including family courts where abusive fathers are given preference due to misogynistic judges.

I hate it here.

[screamingintune]

if you really want to hate it here: my mother worked for Department of Children & Families for over 20 years and she said that in that entire time, the DA didn't prosecute a single case of sexual abuse of children because it's just too iffy to rely on the testimony of children. the best they could do in sex abuse cases was just try to remove the child from the situation.

[skyler_white_yo]

That is so awful. They are starting to prosecute more of those cases, but not near where it should be. The mindset is starting to shift from “eh it’s a kid, they could be wrong” to “kids don’t lie about that kind of thing”.

[sandstorm]

Weinstein, 72, will remain in prison

sounds fine

[swissbeauty23]

I screamed "WHAT?!" out loud

[xdecadentx]

I literally said 'excuse me' out loud when the alert came up.

[steffi_333]

I read somewhere “only in America can a rapist get his conviction overturned because there was just too much evidence against him” and I don’t want to live in this planet anymore

[chapter013]

Hope he and everyone trying to get him away with his crimes the absolute worst 🙃