No justice! No tooth!
Prisoner Harvey Weinstein’s rotten molars have turn into a dental “emergency” which he’s asking to get mounted by a personal dentist — as a result of jail medics will simply pull them out and go away gaping holes in his mouth.
“This example is an emergency,” the previous movie producer pleaded with a decide after being wheeled right into a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday. “I'll pay for the dentist … it will likely be one journey and one journey solely.”
LA Superior Court docket Decide Lisa Lench famous Weinstein had visited the medical bay on the Twin Towers Correctional Facility — the place he’s locked up pending an Oct. 10 trial on fees he sexually assaulted 5 ladies between 2004 and 2013 — twice, however has not resolved his points.
Weinstein’s lawyer Mark Werksman mentioned jail dentists supplied him two decisions: pull the tooth with out substitute or go away them to proceed decaying.
The 70-year-old — already serving 23 years after being convicted of intercourse fees in New York — argued he needs to be allowed a bridge or pretend tooth to fill gaps the place three are lacking to look “presentable” at trial.
“I’m in ache on daily basis. I've cavities and I can’t eat as a result of I’m lacking tooth,” the previous film producer mentioned.
Werksman claimed barring Weinstein from dental care can be a violation of his constitutional rights, and mentioned a gaping gap within the entrance of his tooth makes him look “ridiculous” and “like a caricature.”
Lench informed Weinstein regardless that he will pay to move himself to and from a personal dentist, it nonetheless would contain manpower from the sheriff’s division, making the request past the norm. Lench didn’t agree Weinstein appeared ridiculous however informed Werksman to put in writing a request for the dental work for her to assessment.
The unique objective of the listening to was for prosecutors to ask for 2 witnesses who dwell in Italy to testify by video fairly than in particular person throughout the trial.
The decide ordered one of many witnesses — Lubov Smirnova, who labored for certainly one of Weinstein’s accusers and her household — to seem in particular person. The second witness, Pascal Vicedomini, shall be permitted to seem by video for medical causes.
Lench beforehand denied Weinstein’s bid to postpone his trial due to the Nov. 18 launch of movie “She Mentioned” about how the sexual assault allegations towards him had been uncovered, which he argued might prejudice a jury.
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in jail in March 2020 after a Manhattan jury discovered him guiltyof forcibly performing oral intercourse on former “Challenge Runway” manufacturing assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haleyi in 2006.
Weinstein was additionally convicted of sexually assaulting hairstylist Jessica Mann in 2013.
He was acquitted on two fees of predatory sexual assault associated to allegations he raped actress Annabella Sciorra within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
Final month, New York’s highest court docket agreed to listen to Weinstein’s attraction of his conviction, through which he plans to argue he acquired an unfair trial.
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