The ruling overturning gives the disgraced producer a chance at a new trial and calls into question what evidence prosecutors can use in future sex crime cases
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Here is a look at what happened to the case, which helped define the #MeToo movement, and what might happen next.Weinstein, 72, was found guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting another after both testified in court. In Weinstein’s case, prosecutors persuaded the trial judge that the producer’s alleged prior sexual assaults showed that he knew his accusers did not consent to his advances, but that he intended to force them into sex anyway.
In fact, California law specifically allows testimony about prior bad acts in sex crime cases as evidence that a defendant has a propensity to commit sex crimes. Such evidence was used in Weinstein’s California trial, and the state’s law will make it harder for his lawyers to challenge on appeal than in New York.According to the majority of the court, very little.
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