Weinstein gets a win as criminal case dropped

New York City prosecutors have dropped one of six counts of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein after the former movie mogul’s team questioned inconsistencies in a victim’s testimony.

The development involved an accusation of assault made by Lucia Evans, a once aspiring actress who told the New Yorker that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex during a 2004 meeting.

Weinstein surrendered to New York police in May and was charged with rape in the first degree, rape in the third degree and committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree for alleged forcible sexual acts against two women in 2004 and 2013, prosecutors have said.

According to a letter made public, the victim wrote a draft email to her husband in 2015 that differed from the account of the assault she gave to prosecutors.

Weinstein has been accused of misconduct by more than 80 women. He has denied any wrongdoing.