Harvey Weinstein’s Manhattan sex crimes cases will be tried at the same trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Curtis Farber granted a request from the district attorney’s office to consolidate recently filed charges against Weinstein with the case they are retrying after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. Weinstein’s lawyers had opposed the effort.
Prosecutors last month announced a new indictment against the disgraced producer, accusing him of first-degree criminal sexual act for allegedly assaulting an unnamed woman between April and May 2006.
DA Alvin Bragg’s office in May said it would retry Weinstein on first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape charges first brought in 2018 after the New York Court of Appeals in April threw out his 2020 conviction and subsequent 23-year sentence.
The older case concerns accusations Weinstein raped former aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013 and sexually assaulted former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006.
Weinstein, who was recently diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, according to his attorneys, denies all allegations. He’s due back in court on Jan. 29, when Farber will rule on defense motions.
This story will be updated.