Harvey Weinstein can stay in hospital during #MeToo retrial, judge rules

NEW YORK – Harvey Weinstein has been moved to a New York City infirmary aft a justice approved the ailing ex-studio boss’s petition to enactment determination alternatively than successful jailhouse erstwhile he’s not successful tribunal for his #MeToo retrial.

Judge Paul Goetz precocious Thursday ordered that Weinstein beryllium instantly relocated from the city’s notorious Rikers Island jailhouse analyzable to the situation ward astatine Bellevue Hospital successful Manhattan truthful helium tin person indispensable aesculapian treatment.

Weinstein’s lawyers lobbied for the determination arsenic assemblage enactment got underway this week.

They argued successful tribunal papers that being locked up successful a sometimes freezing jailhouse compartment was exacerbating the Oscar-winning producer's wellness issues, which see chronic myeloid leukemia, diabetes and walking difficulties that necessitate a wheelchair to get successful and retired of court.

Goetz’s bid volition stay successful effect astatine slightest until adjacent Thursday, erstwhile helium is acceptable to clasp a proceeding to sermon the substance further.

A antithetic judge, Curtis Farber, is presiding implicit Weinstein's retrial. The lawsuit volition resume Monday with much assemblage enactment aft 9 jurors were picked this week. In all, 12 jurors and six alternates request to beryllium seated.

Weinstein is being tried again connected rape and intersexual battle charges aft New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, past twelvemonth overturned his 2020 conviction and 23-year situation condemnation and ordered a caller trial, uncovering that improper rulings and prejudicial grounds tainted the archetypal one.

Weinstein has pleaded not blameworthy and denies raping oregon sexually assaulting anyone.

Weinstein has been backmost and distant galore times to Bellevue successful caller months for attraction of assorted maladies. At a pretrial proceeding successful January, helium railed against his attraction astatine Rikers, telling Farber helium wanted to “get retired of this hellhole arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.”

Weinstein's lawyers filed a ineligible claim against New York City past November, alleging helium was receiving substandard aesculapian attraction successful unhygienic conditions astatine Rikers. The claim, which seeks $5 cardinal successful damages, argues that Weinstein has been returned to Rikers each clip earlier afloat recovering astatine the hospital.

The troubled jailhouse analyzable has faced increasing scrutiny for its mistreatment of detainees and unsafe conditions. Last year, a national justice cleared the mode for a imaginable national takeover, uncovering the metropolis had placed inmates successful “unconstitutional danger.”

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