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Harvey Weinstein New York Retrial For Sex Crimes To Begin

The voiding of the jury's verdict against Harvey Weinstein by the New York Court of Appeals was a setback to the movement against sexual violence (Credit: AFP)

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein faces a retrial starting Tuesday, on rape and sex assault charges for which a previous verdict was overturned, forcing survivors who helped fire up the "MeToo" movement to testify against him once again.

Weinstein's 2017 conviction by a jury was overturned seven years later by an appeals court that ruled the way witnesses were handled in the original New York trial was unlawful.

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