/”This has nothing to do with their credibility,/” said Cherly Bader, of Fordham University School of Law. /”This is not a decision by the court that this wasn’t rape, that these weren’t serious charges, that they were not credible. This was really about an evidentiary ruling in the case./”
In a bitterly divided 4-3 ruling, the state Court of Appeals said the trial judge made a critical mistake by letting women testify that Weinstein assaulted them, even though their accusations were not part of the charges he faced.
Bader emphasized that the prosecution was in fact seeking to uplift women by inviting the supplemental testimony.
/”I hope that they’ll [plaintiffs] keep in mind… that the prosecution here was trying to amplify their voices by bringing in this testimony that often is kept out./”
The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg signaled it planned to retry Weinstein. -Report from Reuters
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