WEINSTEIN TO FACE SECOND RAPE TRIAL IN CALIFORNIA

LOS ANGELES Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was extradited from New York to California on Tuesday to face trial on rape and assault charges, his spokesman and the New York Department of Corrections said. Weinstein was convicted in New York in February 2020 for sexual assault and rape and was sentenced to 23 years in prison. In Los Angeles, he is wanted for trial on charges of attacking five women from 2004 to 2013. The Los Angeles charges include rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual battery by restraint, and sexual penetration by use of force. If convicted, Weinstein could spend the rest of his life in prison. Weinstein, 69, is appealing his New York conviction and sentence, and has denied having nonconsensual sex with anyone.