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Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein will remain in custody in New York while awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan, prosecutors have confirmed. Weinstein made a brief court appearance related to California’s request to extradite him there. After the New York case is complete, he will return to California to serve his pending 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction there first, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement. “Today, defendant Harvey Weinstein was formally arraigned on a governor’s warrant issued by Governor Kathy Hochul, who ...
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Author Salman Rushdie does not have to turn over private notes about his stabbing to Hadi Matar, the man charged with attacking him, a judge ruled yesterday (Thursday 18 July). The alleged assailant’s contention was that he was entitled to the material as he prepared for trial. As we reported earlier this year, the trial was postponed and Rushdie's attacker was allowed to seek material related to Rushdie's upcoming memoir about the attack before standing trial. Matar’s lawyers in February subpoenaed Rushdie and publisher Penguin Random House for all source material related to Rushdie’s memoir ...
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In a court filing yesterday (Tuesday 16 July), defense counsel for armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed argued her case should be reconsidered because prosecutors failed to share evidence that might have been exculpatory. Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer last week brought Baldwin's trial to a sudden end based on misconduct of police and prosecutors over the withholding of evidence from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film Rust. Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer for Rust, was pointing a gun at Hutchins during a rehearsal on a movie set outside Santa...
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Manhattan prosecutors said yesterday (Tuesday 9 July) that they intend to bring new sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein as they anticipate a November retrial for the disgraced media mogul. Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said in court that prosecutors are actively pursuing claims of rape that occurred in Manhattan within the statute of limitations. She said some potential survivors that were not ready to step forward during Weinstein’s first New York trial have indicated they are now willing to testify. But when pressed by the judge, Blumberg said prosecutors have not y...
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After having received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Turin last year, US actor Kevin Spacey is set to receive several gongs this month. It has been announced that he has won an award for his voice performance in the thriller Control, given by the Folkestone Independent Film Awards in the UK. The actor does not appear on screen in Gene Fallaize’s movie, his first film after his acquittal last year, in which Spacey plays a man who hijacks a government official’s car in order to exact revenge. The part is entirely vocal. The awards are set to take place in Folkestone, Kent, on 20 July. It’s uncl...
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Former US President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts lobbied against him for falsifying records in an attempt to cover up hush money payments to porn star Stormi Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 presidential elections. The guilty verdict now makes Trump the first-ever President of the United States to be convicted of a crime. Trump is due to return to Manhattan court on July 11 for his sentencing. Some came to Trump’s defense, including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who took to social media to write: “The Democrats have succeeded in their years long attempt to turn Ame...
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Closing arguments in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial concluded on Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom, marking the final opportunity for prosecutors and defence lawyers to convince the jury of their respective cases before deliberations began. Jurors will undertake the unprecedented task of deciding whether to convict the former US president of felony criminal charges stemming from hush money payments tied to an alleged scheme to buy and bury stories that might have threatened Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. At the heart of the charges are reimbursements paid to Trump fixer-turned-fo...
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The trial of Ilaria Salis continued on Friday in Budapest. The 39-year-old activist is accused of deliberately travelling to Budapest to attack neo-Nazis after being arrested in February 2023 following a counter-demonstration for a rally by far-right extremists. During the court session, neither the victims of the masked attackers nor the present witnesses could identify her as the perpetrator. The case has made headlines in Italy after Salis previously appeared in court with handcuffs and her feet chained. Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has made several official complaints on behalf ...
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