CNN —Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein is set to appear in a New York courtroom Wednesday in his first public appearance since an appeals court overturned his sex crimes conviction.
The court’s ruling upended the case against Weinstein, whose downfall stood as a symbol of the success of the #MeToo movement.
The appeals court ordered that Weinstein receive a new trial.
Yet #MeToo has had mixed success in the courtroom, and this is the second high-profile case to be overturned on appeal.
The comedian Bill Cosby was convicted in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, but a Pennsylvania appeals court overturned the conviction in 2021, saying his due process rights were violated.
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