Harvey Weinstein has shown a horrible new look in court while he begged a judge to listen to his blood rise.
The Cash -on Film Mogul asked the court to help his test date ahead because of his deteriorating health, while wearing a heavily adapted suit.
Weinstein said: “I don't know how long I can hold” while he is suffering from cancer, heart problems and harsh conditions in the New York City prison in Rikers Island.
The 72-year-old objected after Judge Curtis Farber said the new trial would start on 15 April, making it begged to trade with another, non-related trial that the judge has in March.
“Every day I am on Rikers Island, it is a mystery for me how I am still walking,” Weinstein said during a hearing in the constitutional court in Manhattan.
“I hold because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over.”
Weinstein wore a poorly created suit with a metal American flag pin on the lapel in front of his court, which seemed too big for his shrunken form.
His white shirt also did not seem to be in iron, which contributed to the Haggard look.
Harvey Weinstein has shown a horrible new look in court while he begged a judge to listen to his blood rise. He was wearing a badly crumpled suit in Manhattan's courtroom
Weinstein said: “I don't know how long I can hold” because he is suffering from cancer, heart problems and harsh conditions in the prison of Rikers Island in New York City (photo)
Weinstein is treated for numerous health problems, including chronic myeloid leukemia, heart problems and diabetes.
He complained to Farber that prison officers gave him the wrong pills on Wednesday morning and did not pick him up in the court in time. “So many people who suffer from Rikers Island,” he said.
Weinstein arrived in a wheelchair in a wheelchair more than half an hour after the planned start time of the hearing.
Sometimes when he spoke Farber, he sounded more like the empire studio boss he once was.
“I ask and beg you, your honor, to move your process,” Weinstein said, suggesting that even a week would be the lead.
Weinstein said he sometimes craved air and predicted that he would soon be in a hospital for treatment again.
He interviewed the judge about his trial calendar, including jury selection in another issue that starts on Monday.
Farber said he arrived on the date of 15 April after consultation with public prosecutors and the lawyers of Weinstein, but would look at it possible to start the trial a few days earlier, if time permits.
“I'm in a serious emergency. I beg the court to move your date, “Weinstein said and told the judge that he” wanted to get out of this Helgat as soon as possible. “
The plea of Weinstein, a rarity for a criminal defendant, came after Farber had given an important statement that defined the scope of his new process.
The judge maintained an indictment based on a claim from a woman who was not in the original case.
Weinstein had wanted the extra indictment and his lawyers argued that the office of the public prosecutor in Manhattan only brought their case with a third prosecutor after the highest court of New York had destroyed his conviction in 2020 about rape and sexual attack with two women.
Planning the withdrawal was complicated by an increasingly drank calendar of the court.
The Cash -on film Mogul asked the court to help his test date ahead because of his deteriorating health, while wearing a badly crumpled suit (shown above)
The lawyer of Weinstein, Arthur Aidala, represents the conservative strategist Steve Bannon in a border wall fraud test that starts on 4 March before another judge in Manhattan.
In the meantime, Farber has a murder process in March.
Before the Bannon's test date was determined last week, Aidala had suggested that the Weinstein process was the first in 'The Interest of Humanity', referring to the falling health of the ex-studio boss.
“They know that Mr Weinstein dies of cancer and now is an innocent man in the state of New York,” Aidala argued in court last week. He argued for public prosecutors: “Can I first try the case of this dying man?”
Weinstein is once again caught on accusation that in 2006 he performed oral sex on a film and TV production assistant and raped an aspiring actor in 2013.
The extra costs, submitted in September, claims that he forced oral sex with another woman in a hotel in Manhattan in 2006.
The office of the public prosecutor in Manhattan said in court cases that the woman, who has not been publicly identified, came to public prosecutors only a few days before the start of Weinstein's first trial, but was not part of that case.
Public Prosecutors said they did not pursue the allegations of the women after Weinstein had been sentenced and sentenced to 23 years in prison, but they reviewed them again and established a new indictment after the State Court of Appeal had thrown his conviction last April .
Farber ruled in October to combine the new indictment and existing charges in one process.
A representative, when submitting the complaint last week, also pointed to the earlier health problems of the convicted rapist, who include attacks with COVID-19 and double pneumonia. He is now suffering from a rare form of bone cancer, because he will be aware of new charges sometime next year
Weinstein was already complying with
The lawyers of Weinstein claim that public prosecutors are biased for him by waiting almost five years to submit the extra charge, which suggests that they had chosen not to include the statement in his first trial, so that they could use it later as His conviction was reversed.
Officers of Justice called that thinking 'absurd', in contrast to the lawyers of Weinstein would also have been furious if he had been sued on the basis of the third -woman's statement during his first trial or immediately after his conviction.
Weinstein 'would probably have characterized that timing as a vengeful and free stack,' prosecutors wrote in a court last month.
The office of the public prosecutor in Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, said that the previously non -accused accusation 'required a sensitive investigation' and serious contemplation before he sought an indictment, partly because there are no eyewitnesses for the alleged attack and no scientific or Other physical evidence.
Weinstein was co-founder of the film and television production companies Miramax and the Weinstein Company and was once one of the most powerful people in Hollywood, with films such as 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Crying Game' produced.
In 2017 he became the most prominent villain of the #MeToo movement, which broke out when women were made public with reports of his behavior.
He has long maintained that every sexual activity was consensual.
When leaving the conviction of Weinstein, the Court of Appeal ruled that the judge, James M. Burke, allowed him unfair to him on the basis of allegations from other women who were not part of the case. Burke is no longer on the couch.
Weinstein was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of another rape. His 16-year-old prison sentence in that case is still standing, but his lawyers appealed in June and claimed that he did not receive a fair trial.
Weinstein has remained in custody in Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York, with incidental trips to a hospital for medical treatment, pending the introduction.
