Harvey Weinstein's lawyers want lenient sentence, fearing he'll die behind bars

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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers have pleaded for the sentencing judge to be lenient on the disgraced producer, suggesting he should be given a mandatory minimum of five years behind bars.The movie mogul is due to be sentenced on Wednesday, and could be given up to 29 years in jail after being convicted of rape and a criminal sexual act last month.However, in legal documents filed late on Monday night, Weinstein’s legal team argued that his ill health should be taken into consideration, and anything more than five years would essentially be “a de facto life sentence”.“The grave reality is that Mr.

Weinstein may not even outlive that term,” they wrote in a letter to New York Supreme Court Justice James Burke.The letter went on to state that