Los Angeles D.A. Files Extradition Request for Harvey Weinstein
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has filed a request to extradite Harvey Weinstein, as it seeks to try him on five counts of sexual assault and rape.
The D.A.’s office had previously filed a detainer on New York State prison authorities, the first step in a process that has been slowed considerably by the coronavirus pandemic. New York authorities are now expected to set a hearing on whether to move Weinstein to Los Angeles.
The producer is serving a 23-year sentence at Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison near Buffalo, N.Y., after being convicted of rape and sexual assault in February. If convicted on the charges in Los Angeles, he faces up to an additional 29 years.
Weinstein faces three charges in connection with the alleged rape of an Italian model at a hotel room on Feb. 18, 2013. He is also accused of sexually assaulting a second woman the following day. The charges were filed on the opening day of Weinstein’s New York trial in January.
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