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Alvin Bragg Set to Try Weinstein Again in Changed #MeToo Climate

Bloomberg Law News · last updated

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has secured convictions against high-profile defendants like Donald Trump, Jonathan Majors, and Cuba Gooding Jr.

But on Tuesday his office will tee off again against one who got away: Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie producer whose sexual assault conviction was overturned in New York last year.

All sides of the case agree this won’t look like 2020, when Weinstein was tried in New York in a landmark moment for the #MeToo movement.

The second trial “will look different,” Bragg told Bloomberg Law in a phone interview.

While careful choosing his words days before jury selection …

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