NEW YORK—Harvey Weinstein’s retrial next month will largely be an abridged version of the original, with one big addition: a charge based on an allegation from a woman who was not a part of the first case.
But at a key pretrial hearing Wednesday, the disgraced movie mogul’s lawyers cautioned that because Weinstein’s 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction was overturned, the past isn’t prologue—it’s almost entirely irrelevant.
“We can take that transcript and all the judge’s rulings and throw them in the garbage,” Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala, argued. “That trial was declared illegal by the highest court in this state.”…