Jessica Yellin Instagram – WEINSTEIN NY RAPE CONVICTION OVERTURNED A New York appeals court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction for sexual assault. New York prosecutors will have to decide whether to retry him. Ge has been serving a 22 year sentence in New York. He remains in jail on separate conviction in California, where he’s serving a 16 year prison term. He is 72. The appeals court ruled 4-3 that, “We conclude that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes,” and “The remedy for these egregious errors is a new trial.” In other words, they objected to the trial judges’ decision to allow testimony from other women who say Weinstein attacked them, too, but whose claims were never proven in court. A lawyer for a number of Weinstein’s accusers says this is a double standard for sexual assault, since unproven past acts are allowed to be presented in court routinely for other types of cases One judge, Madeline Singas, wrote in her dissent that that “The majority’s determination perpetuates outdated notions of sexual violence and allows predators to escape accountability.” She argued that this ruling continues a “disturbing trend of overturning juries’ guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence.” Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction was also thrown out. What are your thoughts: is this the justice system working? Is this a backlash to MeToo? Are these two isolated cases and we shouldn’t draw conclusion? Should prosecutors retry him? Should witnesses testify again? What a world.