Harvey Weinstein Scores Win Against LA DA In Multiple Rape Charges Case; Sexual Battery Claim Officially Dismissed

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Facing 140 years behind bars if found guilty on multiple sex crimes, Harvey Weinstein today saw one of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s sexual battery charges against him tossed out by a state judge.Affirming a ruling she had made back on July 29, LA Superior Court Judge Lisa B.

Lench this morning rejected an attempt by the D.A.’s office to reargue the matter.In accordance with the motion put forward by the disgraced producer’s lawyers last month, Judge Lench agreed that prosecutors had not effectively informed a Grand Jury that the March 11, 2010 attack in a Beverly Hills hotel was now outside the 10-year span of the statute of limitations on such crimes.In fact, the D.A.’s office had initially pinned the matter on Weinstein in