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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — A New York appeals court considering Harvey Weinstein’s request to overturn his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction appeared Wednesday to empathize with the disgraced film producer’s argument that he’d been placed in a “legal vise” by uncharged crimes. At Weinstein’s trial, the judge and a juror sabotaged the Hollywood mogul’s chances of getting a fair shake, Weinstein’s lawyer Barry Kamins told the Appellate Division, First Department. “The defendant is in a stranglehold,” Kamins said. “He was in a legal vise in this case.” Kamins argued the court should give Weinstein a new tr…