Harvey Weinstein after New York overturned his conviction

Weinstein's story seemed finished when he was convicted in New York in 2020. But in April 2024, New York's highest court threw out that conviction, ruling that the original trial had improperly allowed testimony about allegations outside the charged conduct. That ruling did not free him into normal life, because he remained jailed and had already received a separate 16-year sentence in California. Still, it reopened one of the most iconic cases of the MeToo era.

The New York retrial did not produce one clean ending. In June 2025, a Manhattan jury convicted him on one sex-crime count but deadlocked on a separate rape charge. Prosecutors tried that remaining charge again in 2026, but dismissed it on June 25 after the accuser said she could not endure a fourth trial. On September 23, a judge sentenced Weinstein to 15 years for the surviving New York conviction.

The New York retrial phase is therefore resolved, although the separate California case and resentencing process remain distinct. This is exactly the kind of story where public memory stops at the first giant verdict while the legal system keeps moving for years afterward.