Harvey Weinstein won't be charged for all of the misconduct he's accused of. Here's why.
But Los Angeles County prosecutors on Monday endedProsecutors said they declined to file in three other cases brought to law enforcement because of the statute of limitations. Three other cases remain under investigation.
One woman told the Los Angeles Police Department she was raped by Weinstein at a house in Hollywood in the late 1970s.A second woman reported to Beverly Hills police that when she met with the producer in April 2011 at a Beverly Hills hotel, he appeared in a bathrobe and exposed himself.“Once he released her arm, she fled the hotel suite and left that hotel,” wrote Deputy Dist. Atty. Paul Thompson in declining the case.
A third woman identified as “a dancer at an adult entertainment club” accused Weinstein of misdemeanor battery in connection with a Christmas Eve 2015 incident, according to Thompson’s declination.Legal experts have said the cases fall into two potential charging catagories: criminal sexual assault such as rape, and the lesser crime of lewd acts such as unwanted touching or masturbation.
Lewd act allegations have proved more challenging because the statute of limitations — the time period during which a crime can be prosecuted — in California is as little as one year.
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