The Crown Prosecution Service, which in 2022 licensed two prices of indecent assault in opposition to Weinstein, stated it determined to discontinue proceedings as a result of there was “not a practical prospect of conviction.”
“Now we have defined our determination to all events,” the CPS stated in a press release.”We might all the time encourage any potential victims of sexual assault to come back ahead and report back to police, and we are going to prosecute wherever our authorized take a look at is met.”
Weinstein turned essentially the most outstanding villain of the #MeToo motion in 2017 when girls started to go public with accounts of his behaviour. After the revelations emerged, British police stated they had been investigating a number of allegations of sexual assault that reportedly came about between the Nineteen Eighties and 2015.
In June 2022, the Crown Prosecution Service stated it had licensed London’s Metropolitan Police Service to file two prices of indecent assault in opposition to Weinstein in relation to an alleged incident that occurred in London in 1996. The sufferer was in her 50s on the time of the announcement.
Not like many different nations, Britain doesn’t have a statute of limitations for rape or sexual assault.
Weinstein, who has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anybody, stays in custody in New York whereas awaiting retrial in Manhattan, prosecutors stated in August.
After the retrial, he is because of begin serving a 16-year sentence in California for a separate rape conviction in Los Angeles, authorities stated. Weinstein was convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 whereas already serving a 23-year sentence in New York.
His 2020 conviction in Manhattan was thrown out earlier this 12 months when the state’s high court docket dominated that the decide within the authentic trial unfairly allowed testimony in opposition to Weinstein primarily based on allegations that weren’t a part of the case.
Weinstein, the co-founder of the Miramax leisure firm and The Weinstein Firm movie studio, was as soon as probably the most highly effective individuals in Hollywood, having produced movies equivalent to “Pulp Fiction” and “The Crying Recreation.”
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