Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will face a retrial for sex crimes charges on April 15, a judge said Wednesday, despite Weinstein begging the judge to move the trial up because of his health issues, saying “I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.”
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Judge Curtis Farber said the trial would begin April 15 and he could not push it earlier because he has to preside over a trial that is “set in stone,” ABC News reported.
Weinstein pleaded with Farber to move the trial up anyway, saying: “Every day I'm at Rikers Island it's a mystery to me how I'm still walking … I'm asking and begging you, your honor, I can't hold on anymore. I'm holding on because I want justice for myself and I want this to be over with.”
Weinstein has long complained about being held in Rikers while battling bone marrow cancer and a number of other health issues, including having emergency heart surgery in September.
This is a developing story.
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