Harvey Weinstein walks away from the courtroom room along with his lawyer Benjamin Brafman on the New York State Supreme Court docket on October 11, 2018 in New York Metropolis.
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Harvey Weinstein, the once-renowned movie producer convicted of rape final 12 months, on Tuesday was ordered to be extradited from New York to face sexual assault fees in Los Angeles.
Weinstein, who’s at the moment serving a 23-year jail sentence in upstate New York, is charged with rape, sexual battery and different crimes in reference to 5 incidents that allegedly occurred between 2004 and 2013.
His legal professionals for the previous 12 months have fought efforts to extradite him to Los Angeles, by, amongst different issues, citing his poor well being.
However Erie County, New York, Court docket Decide Kenneth Case finally rejected their arguments Tuesday.
The Los Angeles Occasions reported that Weinstein, 69, is just not more likely to be moved to California till July, on the earliest.
Weinstein faces as much as 140 years in jail if convicted within the Los Angeles case.
Weinstein grew to become the face of the #MeToo motion in 2017 after The New Yorker journal and The New York Occasions printed articles detailing allegations by girls claiming he dedicated rampant sexual misconduct in opposition to them.
The co-founder of leisure firm Miramax was convicted in February 2020 in Manhattan Supreme Court docket of a first-degree legal sexual act in opposition to manufacturing assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006 and of third-degree rape for attacking aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a resort room in 2013.
Weinstein’s legal professionals filed an enchantment of his conviction in April.
Throughout his profession, Weinstein had produced award-winning movies together with “Pulp Fiction,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “Gangs of New York.”