Throughout a listening to earlier than Choose Curtis Farber in New York state courtroom in Manhattan on Thursday, prosecutor Nicole Blumberg stated a grand jury had indicted Harvey Weinstein on extra prices, however didn’t specify what these crimes had been.
Weinstein was not in courtroom for the listening to. He was rushed to the hospital from New York Metropolis’s Rikers Island jail on Sunday to endure emergency coronary heart surgical procedure, and his attorneys say he’s beset with well being issues.
Weinstein’s defence lawyer Arthur Aidala stated the grand jury was probing three “issues,” however didn’t know whether or not that referred to particular incidents or the variety of accusers.
Farber has tentatively set a trial date for Nov. 12. Blumberg stated on Thursday that prosecutors would nonetheless be ready to go to trial on that date. Aidala advised reporters his staff would attempt to delay any trial containing new prices.
Regardless of the reversal of his New York conviction, Weinstein has remained in custody in New York due to a separate rape conviction in California.
On the listening to, Farber ordered that Weinstein stay in custody at Bellevue Hospital, discovering that the most recent well being care confirmed he was not getting enough therapy at Rikers.
