Former film producer Harvey Weinstein asked a judge Wednesday to make it possible for him to see a personal dentist to offer with dental issues that are resulting in him ache as he awaits demo on sexual intercourse-relevant fees involving five girls.
“I am in discomfort,” the 70-12 months-old defendant advised Superior Court docket Judge Lisa B. Lench. “This condition is an emergency.”
Weinstein instructed the judge that his dental concerns could be dealt with in “just one journey and a person vacation only” to a non-public dentist, for whom he would pay out the fees.
Lench stated she was knowledgeable that Weinstein had been witnessed twice at a jail clinical facility, but that there was a disagreement amongst him and the dentist involving the proposed treatment method. She mentioned that Weinstein’s ask for to see a private dentist was “not an insignificant request,” and questioned the protection to submit information and facts involving the form of dental do the job asked for.
Defense attorney Mark Werksman told the judge that Weinstein has been presented a “awful choice” though in county jail — to continue on to experience suffering or to have enamel pulled.
Weinstein’s law firm mentioned his consumer is “missing teeth,” appears like a “caricature” and has difficulty feeding on.
“It is essential that it seems to be like he is not indigent,” Werksman reported, telling the decide that Weinstein has a correct to be “presentable.”
Weinstein — who was introduced into court docket in a wheelchair — is set to go on demo Oct. 10.
Possible jurors are expected to be summoned then to the downtown Los Angeles courtroom to fill out questionnaires gauging their familiarity with the circumstance and means to serve.
The trial, which includes the jury selection system, is envisioned to consider about eight weeks.
Los Angeles County prosecutors to begin with charged Weinstein in January 2020 with forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by use of drive involving a single girl on Feb. 18, 2013, and sexual battery by restraint involving a further female a working day afterwards.
Weinstein was subsequently billed in April 2020 with sexual battery by restraint involving another girl. In November 2020, prosecutors included six much more counts — three counts just about every of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation –
– involving two alleged victims in Beverly Hills among 2004 and 2010.
The grand jury subsequently indicted Weinstein on the exact expenses.
Weinstein was extradited from New York, the place he was convicted of raping an aspiring actress and a prison sex act from a previous creation assistant. The state’s greatest court has considering that agreed to listen to his enchantment involving that situation.
Weinstein produced these kinds of movies as “Shakespeare in Adore,” which in 1999 gained the ideal picture Oscar, and “Pulp Fiction.”
